[The Notions of Pupils and Students about Sexually Transmitted Infections and Ways of Their Development].

The sexually transmitted infections are an actual medical social problem of the youth that negatively impacts natality because of high proportion in the structure of causes of infertility and miscarriage. The questionnaire survey was carried out on the sampling of 938 pupils and students of natural science and humanitarian specialties. It is established that those of acquiring natural science education in the issues related to sexually transmitted diseases more often trust professional sources of information (physicians and scientific publications) while humanitarians prefer Internet and social advertising. The profile of education has no impact on self-evaluation of possible infection, readiness to screening examination and visiting the physician in case of corresponding problems occurrence.