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• Condom use decreases with age from 60% among sexually active adolescents to 16% among men in their late 30s.
• Most men use a condom the first time they have intercourse, but condom use subsequently declines and reliance on female methods increases.
• Half of men who use condoms do so for birth control, not STI protection.

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• More than one-third of men aged 18-44 do not have a regular doctor.
• One-third have not seen a doctor in the past year.
• Men are less likely than women to have health insurance.
• One-quarter of men aged 15-49—including 37% of men in their early 20s—have no health coverage of any kind.
• Only about 14% of U.S. men 15-49 make a sexual and reproductive health visit annually; young men who are at the greatest risk of unintended pregnancies and STIs are the least likely to make a sexual and reproductive health care visit.
• The older men get, the more likely they are to need medical sexual and reproductive health services rather than information.

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• Men younger than 25 are involved in 1.7 million pregnancies, resulting in 1.1 million births (many of which are unplanned) and 600,000 abortions.
• Men in their 20s account for about half of births and half of abortions in the United States each year.

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• One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime.
• Incidence rates of prostate cancer are higher for African American men compared to white men.
• Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer in men ages 15 to 34.
• Testicular cancer is most common in white men than in men of other races.

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• Four in 10 young men aged 15-18 report discussing STIs or birth control with their parents.
• Three in 10 young men aged 15-19 receive some sexuality education after they have begun having intercourse.
• Six in 10 men aged 15-18 report discussing AIDS with their parents.

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• One in six men aged 15-19 have genital herpes including 25% of poor men and 31% of black men.
• Chlamydia and gonorrhea cases are highest among younger men.
• There are approximately 500-600 new cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea per year per 100,000 men in their early 20s.
• Gonorrhea is reported in black men more than 40 times as often as in white men.
• Eight in 10 Americans living with HIV are men.

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Source: AGI, "In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of American Men," New York: AGI, 2002.