A Renewed Call to Action for Addressing the Alarming Rising Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections in U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults

Affiliations

• ¹ Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia; Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Electronic address: Cherrie.Boyer@ucsf.edu.
• ² Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia; Tufts University, Department of Community Health, Medford, Massachusetts.
• ³ Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia; Washington State University, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Pullman, Washington.
• ⁴ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Washington, District of Columbia.
• ⁵ Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia; University of Miami, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Coral Gables, Florida.
• ⁶ Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia; New York University, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, New York, New York; Duke University, School of Nursing, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, Durham, North Carolina.