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Social conditions more likely to affect minority groups can cause higher STI rates among some groups. Learning more about STIs and the factors that sustain these epidemics is a first step in empowering affected communities to improve their health status and advance health equity.
Health equity is achieved when everyone has an equal chance to be healthy regardless of their background.1
Research shows that there are higher rates of sexually transmitted infections among some racial or ethnic minority groups compared to whites.23 Understanding these higher rates are not caused by ethnicity or heritage, but by social conditions that are more likely to affect minority groups, is important. Factors such as poverty, large gaps between the rich and the poor, fewer jobs, and low education levels can make it more difficult for people to stay sexually healthy.4
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