Fun Facts About STDs
True or False: STDs are among some of the most common infectious diseases in the U.S.
True
A common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
What is chlamydia?
Infections that have not yet developed into STDs.
What are STIs?
The most common way to spread oral herpes.
Kissing
The name of a flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material used to prevent STDs and pregnancy.
Condom
What is the most deadly STD?
AIDS ("Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome") which originates from contracting HIV ("Human Immunodeficiency Virus").
A STD caused by a bacteria that is totally treatable, but can cause serious illness or even death if left untreated.
What is syphilis?
A disease resulting from STIs which pose a more serious problem.
What is an STD?
What STDs can be spread during pregnancy or childbirth from a mother to a baby?
List 4.
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis B, HIV, Syphilis, Genital Herpes.
The only way to absolutely avoid getting an STD.
Abstinence
What is the average annual cost of diagnosing and treating STDs annually?
Staggering $16 billion per year in America alone.
A bacterial infection that infects the membranes of the reproductive tract, including the cervix, uterus, and fallopian tubes in women, and the urethra in both women and men.
What is gonorrhea?
A preventative device good for preventing STIs transmitted exclusively through genital fluids such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV.
What is a condom?
Name 3 ways in which STDs can spread non-sexually.
Blood transfusions; shared needles; unsterile body piercings; unsterile tattooing equipment; sharing clothing/fabric; being exposed to blood or body fluids.
Condoms are ___ effective for preventing STIs, including HIV, and even protect against pregnancy.
95%-98%
About what percent of Americans carry the Herpes virus?
75
The most common nonviral STD in the world with similar symptoms to that of a yeast infection.
What is trichomoniasis?
What are the eight most common STDs?
Name at least 5.
Chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B virus (HBV), genital herpes, HIV, human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis, and trichomoniasis.
What are the 3 main categories of STDs
Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites
The thing that best prevents the transmission of Hepatitis B
The Hepatitis B vaccine
___ percent of Americans aged 15 to 55 are infected with some sort of STD.
25
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?
A way to spread HIV and other STDs through the blood.
Hint: Sharing a _____ to _______
Sharing a needle to pierce the skin or do drugs
A vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV)
Gardasil