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**RISK FACTORS AND BARRIERS TO PREVENTION: Sexual Risk Factors**

Early age at sexual initiation. According to CDC’s Youth Risk Behavioral Survey (YRBS), many young people begin having sexual intercourse at early ages:

~47% of high school students have had sexual intercourse

~7.4% of them reported first sexual intercourse before age 13.

HIV/AIDS education needs to take place at correspondingly young ages, before young people engage in sexual behaviors that put them at risk for HIV infection.
High school students reporting ever having had sexual intercourse, 2003
Source. CDC’s Youth Risk Behavioral Survey, 2003.