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Five hundred and fifty adolescents selected from public and private secondary schools in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State were recruited using a multistage sampling technique.\n                    <jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Four hundred and ninety-nine (92.4%) respondents had heard about sexually transmitted infections before, the three most important sources of information being electronic media (68.7%); teachers (68.1%); and print media (44.9%). Eighty percent of the respondents knew only one STI and the two most commonly mentioned ones were HIV\/AIDS (78.0%) and gonorrhea (23.0%). More than 75% of the respondents knew the modes of transmission of STIs while some of them equally had misconceptions. The most important symptoms mentioned were weight loss (77.4%), painful micturition (68.9%), and genital ulcer (54.1%). On the whole, only 6.9% of the respondents had good knowledge of STIs; the rest had fair and poor knowledge.\n                    <jats:italic>Conclusion<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Secondary school adolescents in Ado Local Government Area have only a fair knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases. STI studies should be inculcated into the school curriculum and media publicity\/enlightenment campaigns about them should be intensified.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2015\/260126","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,9]],"date-time":"2015-08-09T17:03:47Z","timestamp":1439139827000},"page":"1-7","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Awareness and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado Ekiti, South Western Nigeria"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2015","author":[{"given":"E. 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