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 Chlamydia trachomatis.
What is chlamydia?
Infections 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?
AIDS ("Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome") which originates from contracting HIV ("Human Immunodeficiency Virus").
What is the most deadly STD?
STD caused by a bacteria and is totally treatable but can cause serious illness or even death if left untreated.
What is syphilis?
A sexually transmitted disease resulting from STIs which pose a more serious problem.
What is an STD?
STD transmission of gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV, and syphilis can occur during _____.
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?
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%?
___ percent of Americans carry the Herpes virus.
What is seventy-five?
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?
___ percent of Americans aged 15 to 55 are infected with some sort of STD and over half of them do not know it.
What is twenty-five?
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.
What is sharing a needle to pierce an ear or do drugs?
A vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease with long-term consequences.
What is Gardasil 9?