A burning sensation. An itch that wont go away. A rash. Yellow or brown or white discharge.
For many teenage girls and young women, these are things they dont talk about. Theyre symptoms to hide from friends, partners, parents and even health-care providers.
Thats what researchers at the SA Medical Research Council found when they talked to nearly 5,000 girls and young women aged 15 to 24 across the country about sexually transmitted infections STIs and vaginal infections, said Zoe Duby, a senior specialist scientist and socio-behavioural researcher at the council
