The factor that causes STD’s to continue in incidence and prevalence is the lack of education to the primary carriers of STD’s. To educate grade school childeren on condom use is not the most effective means of control. High risk groups that engage in acts that are proven to spread STD’s should be the target of education and control measures, not children still learning their colors. I believe that too much time and money is misdirected and the cause is disregarded. 

            When there is an outbreak, the goal is to target the ill for quarantine not the healthy. Then why when it comes to STD’s do we give condoms to children and not homosexuals and promiscuous adults. The truth is political correctness and the fear of alienating a group of society has caused greater proliferation of STD’s. The Center for Disease Control stated in a 2004 reported on HIV that almost 70 percent of AIDS sufferers had acquired it through homosexual sex or intravenous drug users.

            To prevent the spread of STD’s, it is crucial to educate all who will conduct high risk sexual activity. Moreover, it is important to ensure that high risk individuals understand the risks to themselves and potential partners. Furthermore, to target an STD training and prevention program to children is flawed and doomed to fail. If morality and abstinence is not taught to a child, then as a child becomes an adult circumstances such as a monetary shortage may halt a condom purchase. The goal should be not to politicize the problem but address the issue with the facts. It is my opinion that STD’s will continue to be a world problem due to non-monogamous homosexual and heterosexual behavior.