Chapter 4 - Healthy Sexuality

Key Messages:

• More than half of youth in Algoma said that school (53.3%) or a parent or caregiver (70.3%) was a typical source of sexual health information.
  
  
• Only 48.3% Algoma adults aged 20 – 29 reported using a condom the last time they had sex.
  
  
• The rate of chlamydia and gonorrhea infections in Algoma, were lower in 2023 than previous years.
  
  
• Rates of infectious syphilis in Algoma have increased drastically in the past 5 years, from 2.1 infections per 100,000 in 2019 to 37.4 infections per 100,000 in 2023, exceeding the Ontario average in 2023.

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