More and more young people getting STDs

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A rising number of young people are getting STDs in HCMC, causing worried students to make a trip to the hospital to check for the disease.

 

Minh Hieu, 19, went to the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Dermato Venereology because he suspected he had genital warts. While he was in university, he had a lover and they had anal sex. When tests revealed that he had genital warts and was infected with HIV, Hieu burst into tears.

 

Dr. Doan Van Loi Em at the hospital said cases like Hieu's are not uncommon. Since the beginning of this year, he said, the hospital has recorded around 1,900 cases of genital warts among students. The number in 2020 was 1,700 and fewer in 2021, when there were many months of Covid-19 lockdown.

 

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