We found out that not many people are aware of syphilis and the effects it has on their health and daily lifestyle. Many teenagers are sexually active and at a higher risk for the disease (and any other STD for that matter). Due to the rise of syphilis on the Navajo Reservation, not many people are aware of the disease and do not care to use any sort of contraceptives that will help prevent revolving around the Navajo Reservation when they started counting up to thirty-four cases that year and in 2002 that figure was repeated. Thirty-four cases a year isn't a huge number, but considering that the total Navajo population is about 250,000, its enough to equal a rate of infection seven times that of the United States as a whole. About a quarter of these cases are in teens ages fifteen to nineteen meaning that one out of every eight adolescents contracts an STD.
