UK Youth are facing a "crisis of sexual health" fueled by alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour, warns a report.
"They are defining their lifestyle" with this behavior, favoured by celebrities of culture, the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV said.
The increase in sexually transmitted infections and adolescents are the high prices of pregnancy "worrying", he said.
The Department of Health, said sexual health was placed under "absolute priority".
The government report said last campaign, he failed to recognize the link between drink, drugs and sexual health.
The IAG further emphasizes that the United Kingdom has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy and sexual infections in Europe.
'Glamorising celebrities "
More and more young teenagers define their lives by drugs, alcohol and drinking age-sex-sponsored by the current culture of celebrity, they say.
Professor Mark Bellis, head of the Centre for Public Health of the Liverpool John Moores University, and one of the authors of the report, called on the relationship between alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour " fuel for a crisis in sexual health ".
The IAG said youths were associated with conflicting messages, express or underlying advertising.
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The coverage of celebrities behavior was widespread, while others limited information, he said.
Anne Weyman, one of the vice-chairmen of the group of independent consultants and the fpa Chief Executive, said: "We need to focus on young people's view.
"You see, in order to give them this culture of celebrity, in the newspapers, for sex and drugs, alcohol, everyone comes together, and they are not there, in addition to information and education, they must address issues such as drugs and alcohol and Sex, as they grow up.
"Tordues messages"
The advisory group, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, said restrictions on the advertising of condoms on television and the absence of compulsory sex education in schools, the problem is worse.
"There are restrictions on advertising condoms pre-waters, and shows a picture of a condom the envelope. Our youth are distorted receive, "he said.
It recommends condoms should be easily accessible to young people.
The IAG said adolescent sexual behaviour in high-risk has been increasingly at risk as young parents, a Contracting-STI, and not at school, establishing long-term, as well as problems increasingly addicted to alcohol and drugs.
In a statement from the Ministry of Health said the issue of sexual health was one of its highest priorities recent statistics showed the lowest since 1993, teenage pregnancies.
He also a reduction of drug consumption among the youth.
The National Children's Bureau and The Sex Education Forum, in a statement, said: "With our current rates of pregnancy in less than 18 years, to its lowest level in 20 years, the adolescent pregnancy in our strategy is clear, a significant influence.
"But the government must do more, his work on the development of national campaigns for the care of young people and their families." They called for a better relationship with gender and education in the schools.
The results follow a report by UNICEF, recently in Britain at the end of the League from 21 countries for the well-being of children.
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