STD

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STDs

• Introductory Statements
• Abstinence Means to abstain (not participate)
  from sexual activity.
• You do not develop immunity to any of these
  diseases like you do to mumps or measles. You
  can get them over and over again.
• You do not get these diseases from doorknobs,
  toilet seats, or drinking glasses.
• STDs attack the mucous membranes of the body
• General Terms
• STD Sexually Transmissible Diseases
• Sexual Contact Usually refers to sexual
  intercourse, but can also mean just touching of
  the genital areas.

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STDs
Prevention/ treatment
Symptoms/signs
transmission
Name of STD

• Abstinence/
• No cure
• Medicines to prevent the assembly of virus to
  slow down disease
• Death is not preventable

• Sexual contact
• Blood pregnancy and needle sharing
• HIV virus

• Fatigue, fever, night sweats, and swollen glands
• Other opportunistic infections

HIV/AIDS
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STDs
Prevention/ treatment
Symptoms/signs
transmission
Name of STD
Sexual contact, intercourse/ Spirochetes/mother To
offspring
Chancre an open sore Rash, hair loss -long
term insanity, paralysis, death
Abstinence/ antibiotics
syphilis
Chlamydia (NGU)
Abstinence/ antibiotics
Males short term burning sensation during
urination, thick whitish pus discharge long
term sterility Females short term pus in
vagina (usually not painful) long term PID
(pelvic inflammatory disease) great pain in
pelvic area, oviducts scarred and blocked
(sterility)
Sexual contact, intercourse
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STDs
Prevention/ treatment
Symptoms/signs
transmission
Name of STD
genital herpes

• Painful blister-like sores on or around the
  genitals and/or buttocks
• Sores highly infectious
• Women may have sores in vagina and may not know
  it
• Sores can return monthly, after emotional stress,
  or after years of inactivity (virus hides in the
  nerves)

• Sexual contact, intercourse, touching sores with
  any part of your body
• Birthing process
• Virus (cant kill it)

Abstinence/ No cure, but antiviral medications
can shorten and prevent outbreaks during the
period of time the person takes the medication.
Abstinence/ Antibiotics, but bacteria is
increasingly resistant to antibiotics

• Sexual contact
• Birthing process (can cause blindness in baby)
• bacteria

• Very similar to chlamydia
• Males white discharge, painful urination
• females usually do not know until PID, which
  causes sterility

gonorrhea