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Cambridge U students clueless about unsafe
sex?
Saturday November 05, 2011 11:57:50 AM,
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London: A survey by
Cambridge University's student newspaper has made the shocking
revelation that show half of the students having had unprotected
sex.
Of the 309 students surveyed at Cambridge University half admitted
to having unprotected sex. While the same number said they
believed there was no risk of pregnancy when a women is
menstruating and ten percent said they believed wearing two
condoms could reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
(STDs), the Daily Mail reported.
Despite revealing a lack of proper knowledge - 92 percent of those
questioned before the survey said that they felt very or quite
confident about sexual health and contraception.
The survey's findings published in the university's newspaper
could also throw light upon the substantial increase in diagnoses
of sexually transmitted diseases over the past decade.
Sir Nick Partridge, from HIV and AIDS charity, Terrence Higgins
Trust, described the findings as staggering.
"Until we improve sex education and give extra support to young
people, they will continue to take avoidable risks with their sex
lives," he said.
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