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-- STDs and Teens -- AIDS/Gonorrhea

-- STDs and Teens -- AIDS/Gonorrhea. What is AIDS?. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, more commonly referred to as AIDS , is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). How is it transmitted?. Bodily fluids. (Semen, blood, vaginal fluids.)

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-- STDs and Teens -- AIDS/Gonorrhea

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  1. -- STDs and Teens --AIDS/Gonorrhea

  2. What is AIDS? • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, more commonly referred to as AIDS, is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

  3. How is it transmitted? • Bodily fluids. (Semen, blood, vaginal fluids.) • Sharing needles. • Sexual interaction with an infected individual.

  4. Severity • AIDS is not a disease to be taken lightly. It will attack your immune system and progressively break it down until it is utterly destroyed, leaving you unprotected against any other opportunistic diseases in the outside world. • After AIDS eliminates your immune system, a common cold can be fatal to you.

  5. What is gonorrhea? • Gonorrhea is another sexually transmitted disease that is especially prevalent among young people between 15 and 24 years of age. It is the second most common STD in the world.

  6. How is it transmitted? • Similar to the methods through which AIDS is transmitted from one individual to another, gonorrhea can contaminate another human being if they have sexual relations with an infected person, come in contact with infected bodily fluids, and an infected mother can transmit it directly to her child during childbirth.

  7. Severity • Although not as deadly as AIDS, gonorrhea can be extremely painful for those infected with it. It attacks the mucous membranes in the body, causing genital swelling, horrible burning pain during urination, and sickly colored discharges from the urinal tract.

  8. Social Problems • Due to misinformation – or a complete lack of information whatsoever – healthy people in society tend to shun those who happen to be infected by the diseases we’ve just discussed. • Tensions tend to rise between the infected and the healthy after a sense of separation is made clear, and its effects are not good at all.

  9. Shame and anger • The infected can take one of two routes after seeing society shunning the sick: the path of isolation or the path of vengeance. • The sick sometimes hide their symptoms from the world and bury their worries away, isolating themselves to hide their disease. • At other times, the infected lash out at the healthy by infecting them on purpose through stealthy needles or not revealing they are sick before having sexual intercourse.

  10. Protection • One can prevent contagion by exercising the following methods: • Regular checkups. • Using condoms during sex. • Not sharing needles with others.

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