Screening for sexually transmitted infections in high school students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: a school-based screening study
Waleed Salih Rasheed, Waleed Khalid Ibrahim, Azad Jameel Hussein, Farhad Shahab Isamael, Nazik Abdulrahman, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Sagvan Ali · 2026
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Waleed Salih Rasheed and six co-authors screen high school students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for sexually transmitted infections. Their 2026 study tests 591 students in a 2025 school screening run by the Preventive Health Department. The students averaged 16.31 years old, with slightly more girls than boys, and grade ten the largest group.
Lab results found hepatitis B in 0.7 percent of students and one case of syphilis, with no HIV or hepatitis C at all. Risky behavior was rare: almost no tattoos, piercings, transfusions, or drug use, and no needle sharing was reported. The worry spot was vaccine cover: only 5.9 percent had hepatitis B vaccination, leaving 81.6 percent unvaccinated. The authors pair the low infection rates with a call to lift that coverage.
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| CREATOR | Waleed Salih Rasheed, Waleed Khalid Ibrahim, Azad Jameel Hussein, Farhad Shahab Isamael, Nazik Abdulrahman, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Sagvan Ali |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |