Fun Facts About STDs
Everyone, as STDs do not care about socioeconomic status, race, age, or sexual orientation.
Who is at risk of contracting STDs?
A common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium C. trachomatis.
What is chlamydia?
Sexually transmitted conditions that have not yet developed into diseases.
What are STIs?
These are the three main causes of STDs.
What are bacteria, viruses, and parasites?
The name of a flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material used to prevent STDs and pregnancy.
What is a condom?
Condoms are the best prevention
What is the best way to protect yourself from contracting STDs?
STD caused by a bacteria and is totally treatable but can cause serious illness or even death if left untreated.
What is syphilis?
The result of STIs which pose a more serious problem and require treatment.
What is an STD?
STD transmission of gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV, and syphilis can occur during this life event.
What can be spread during pregnancy or childbirth from a mother to a baby?
The only way to absolutely avoid getting an STD.
What is abstinence and no blood transfusions or exposure to needles that are not sanitized?
Staggering $16 billion per year in America alone.
What is the annual cost of diagnosing and treating STDs annually?
What is gonorrhea?
A preventative method effective for STIs transmitted exclusively through genital fluids such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV.
What is a condom?
The four ways in which STDs can spread non-sexually.
What are blood transfusions, shared needles, unsterile body piercings, or unsterile tattooing equipment?
What is 95%?
Counseling a client who has contracted an STI, you tell them to notify this person so they may be treated
Who are recent sexual partner(s)?
The most common nonviral STD in the world with similar symptoms to that of a yeast infection.
What is trichomoniasis?
The STDs chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B virus (HBV), genital herpes, HIV, human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis, and trichomoniasis.
What are the eight most common STDs?
The most common way to spread oral herpes.
What is kissing?
It prevents the transmission of Hepatitis B which can be sexually transmitted and is a serious virus that attacks the liver.
What is the Hepatitis B vaccine?
There has been a significant increase in this disease in Durham County
What is syphillis?
This disease is also called "the cervical cancer virus," although few types of it cause cancer, while others cause genital warts, other types of warts, or sometimes no symptoms at all.
What is HPV (human papillomavirus)?
The STD's name is Greek for "cloak" because early scientists believed the disease "cloaked" the nucleus of an infected cell.
What is chlamydia?
This can affect treatment of STDs
What are the social determinants of health?
A vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease with long-term consequences.
What is Gardasil 9?