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STD’s

STD’s. 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.

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STD’s

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  1. STD’s • 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. • STD’s 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.

  2. STD’s 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

  3. STD’s Prevention/ treatment Symptoms/signs transmission Name of STD Chancre: an open sore Rash, hair loss -long term: insanity, paralysis, death Sexual contact, intercourse/ Spirochetes/mother To offspring 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

  4. STD’s 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 (can’t 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

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