One-in-seven will contract STI by the age of 24

ONE-in-seven young Irish people will have picked up a sexually transmitted infection (STI) by the age of 24 years, a new study shows.

The survey also found that young people are angry at the lack of services available to them.

The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) said it had been calling for a National Sexual Health Strategy that could result in fewer young people presenting with STIs ever since the Government launched the National AIDS Strategy in 2000.