“STDs are going to have a huge impact on couples that are trying to have babies in later life. My concern especially applies to women and men in their 20s who are contracting STDs from unprotected sex.”
“The amount of women struggling to conceive will begin to surge over the next few years due to STDs and infections in the younger years. The number of young women contracting chlamydia, which is the number one disease affecting a woman’s chance to conceive, is on the rise rapidly.”
chlamydia can also cause infections in the fallopian tube without any symptoms being shown, so women can go months with the disease untreated. This silent infection can lead to permanent damage to a woman’s uterus and fallopian tubes.
“Fertility problems and not being able to conceive a child can be mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting, so for hopeful parents to only discover they can’t have children because of an STI they contracted at a younger age is absolutely heart-breaking.”
I suggest more education is needed into this area as young people, both male and female, don’t realise the risk and harm they are doing to themselves by contracting sexual transmitted diseases through unprotected sex.
