I feel like they left something out. What could it be? Thinkthinkthink…

December 16th, 2009

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University researchers say half of all urban teenage girls may get one or more sexually transmitted infections within two years of becoming sexually active.

The researchers at the IU School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute say their findings point to the need to screen sexually active teenage girls sooner for infections.

via Study: Sexually active girls at risk of infection – Yahoo! News.

It’s great that they’re studying rates of sexual infection among teens. But is it not glaringly obvious that screening only girls is addressing only half the problem? These girls are being sexually active with someone, and many of those someone’s are bound to be male – so why not address that?

I don’t know if this is a problem with the design of the study, that they excluded teen boys, or a problem with the reporter who did not investigate to see if there was a similar research program being carried out for males, and if not, why not. It seems worthy of a question or a quote or something.

I miss journalism, I really do.