Condoms at Start Cut Risk for Teens

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"Adolescents who use condoms at their sexual debut do not report more sexual partners, are more likely to engage in subsequent protective behaviours, and experience fewer sexually transmitted infections than do adolescents who do not use condoms at their sexual debut," concluded the study by researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle.

"One of the things that's happening, in addition to affecting the individual, if one is pregnant and has syphilis, one can pass it on to the newborn," he said.

"Sometimes young people think they're invincible and so that's not perhaps the best way to approach sexual relationships," [Tom Wong] said.

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Condoms at Start Cut Risk for Teens

They're half as likely to get STDs: survey

By Anne-Marie Tobin

TORONTO -- Teens who use condoms the very first time they have sex are ha...

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