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The Risk of STIs

The Risk of STIs. Is It Worth It?. www.health-alliance.com/living/images/APC_couplestd.jpg. Chapter 25 Lesson 1 Created by T. Stivers. Schindewolf Intermediate School Aug 2013. STDs. Sexually transmitted diseases or infections are spread from person to person through _______ _________.

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The Risk of STIs

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  1. The Risk of STIs Is It Worth It? www.health-alliance.com/living/images/APC_couplestd.jpg Chapter 25 Lesson 1 Created by T. Stivers Schindewolf Intermediate School Aug 2013

  2. STDs Sexually transmitted diseases or infections are spread from person to person through _______ _________. sexual contact

  3. What is an epidemic? Where in our country are STDs at epidemic proportions? It is a disease in which many people in the same area and at the same time are infected epidemic STDs are now an _________among teenagers and college students

  4. Communicable disease - pathogen A __________ is an organism that causes disease. Various pathogens: Virus Fungi rickettsias Bacteria Protozoan is a disease that spreads

  5. How many people do not know they are infected with a STD and pass it on to someone else without knowing? 80% of people

  6. www.healthleader.uthouston.edu/archive/STD/2004/std_bacterialstd-0311.htmlwww.healthleader.uthouston.edu/archive/STD/2004/std_bacterialstd-0311.html

  7. How at Risk are You?

  8. Biological father - is the guy whose sperm caused the baby to be conceived www.celebritydiagnosis.com 

  9. std411.org  yceum.algonquincollege.com 

  10. You make the decisions... Have Sex Total Abstinence Effects: You are in control Greater self-respect Reach goals Enjoy relationship based on REAL love Ultimate freedom emotionally, physically, and mentally Physical Effects: Unwanted pregnancy Sexually Transmitted diseases Emotional Effects: Doubt, fear, loss of trust, rejection, low self-esteem, bitterness, anger, depression

  11. Heart Mind Dreams Emotions Sex love _____ is not _____, but sometimes they can feel like the same thing. _____ love is about ____________; a relationship that values you as a _____ person: Real commitment total NOT JUST BODY PARTS!

  12. Use of alcohol and other drugs increase your risk of STDs Why Alcohol and drugs can lower your inhibitions (your self-consciousness or will-power)

  13. How do you get a STD? • Sexual contact • Exchange body fluids (semen) • Transferred to fetus • Blood-to-blood contact (for some)

  14. Consequences of STDs • Some are asymptomatic – (w/o symptoms) causing permanent damage before you know • Some are incurable – pathogens cannot be eliminated from body (genital herpes, AIDS, syphilis, HPVs, Hepatitis B) • Some cause cancer and cannot be cured (Hepatitis B, HPV) • Some cause sterility – damage to the reproductive organs - NO KIDS • Some cause birth defects in baby and can be passed to baby before, during, or after birth

  15. The only sure way to prevent a STD is ... Abstinence There is NO other 100% method!

  16. Chlamydia – This bacteria most common cause of sterility (m & f) because of no symptoms until it’s too late (pelvic pain after it is too late) Types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Chlä-mĭd-ē-ä M & F: Discharge, burning, abdominal pain Untreated causes PID (pelvic inflammatory disease in females = sterility

  17. www.medicalook.com 

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