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Results W.P. PUTRAJAYA GSHS 2012

3.9 Sexual Behaviours that Contribute to HIV Infection, Other STIs, and Unintended
Pregnancy

Introduction

AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since 1981. As of 2011, an estimated 34 million people
were living with HIV (60, 61). Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years old are the most at
risk group and accounted for 40% of those newly infected with HIV in 2009 (61, 62). Every day, 2,400
young people get infected with more than 5 million young people living with HIV/AIDS globally.
Young people need to know ways of preventing sexual transmission of the virus such as through the
usage of condom.Worldwide, about 16 million women between 15-19 years old give birth each year,
and this is equivalent to 11% of all births (62). UNICEF reported 10-40% of young unmarried girls has
had unintended pregnancies (62). Births to unmarried adolescent mothers are far more likely to be
unintended and are more likely to end in induced abortion; and about 2.5 million adolescents have
unsafe abortion every year (63). Adolescents faced a higher risk of complications and death as a result
of pregnancy than older women.

Findings

The prevalence of students who ever had sex was, 8.4% (95% CI: 6.95-10.11) (Table 9.1). Among those
who ever had sex, 39.1% (95% CI: 25.35-54.75) of them had sex for the ^rst time before the age of 14
years (Table 9.2.1).

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