Archive for 'Prevention'
Erring on the side of caution
Sexually transmitted diseases should not be taken lightly. Some people think that sexually transmitted diseases are easily treated and there are those who think that it will never happen to them. But if you have multiple sex partners then an STD is a very real concern. There are also some STDs that can affect your [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2012 under Health And Fitness, Prevention.
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Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea- infects the individual’s sensitive tissues of reproductive system. • An individual can acquire this disease through all types of sexual contacts like oral sex. • Indications- the indicators to Gonorrhea are very few which makes it all the more difficult to adjudicate it and so stop it from being transmitted from one to the [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2010 under Gonorrhea, Information, Prevention, Symptoms, Treatment.
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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease- usually women are afflicted by this disease. It is a an infection in the upper genital tract and reproductive organs including ovaries, uterus and fallopian tubes. • Spreads through- Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are the two STDs that are most often responsible for this disease. Women between 15 to 25 years of age [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2010 under Information, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Prevention.
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Use Condoms To Prevent STDs
I know that a lot of guys don’t really like the idea of using condoms, but it is the best way to avoid becoming a victim of HIV and other STDs. Having sexual intercourse with an infected person is the most common way of becoming infected. Majority of those infected are teenagers or young adults. [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2009 under Information, Prevention.
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Teens at Higher Risk from STD’s
Teens have become more and more adventurous which also goes to say with the previously adult restricted area of sexual intercourse. There are a lot of programs that aims to raise awareness of such but sad to say, there are still a lot of teens who do get infected with STD’s. Shame or fear of [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2009 under Information, Prevention, Symptoms, Treatment.
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Importance of Reading The Labels of Your Condom
It is important that you read the label. Tests have shown that latex condoms can prevent the passage of STDs while natural (lambskin) condoms may not do this. The package should say that the condoms are effective in preventing disease. If the package doesn’t say anything about preventing disease, the condoms may not provide the [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2009 under Condoms, Prevention.
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College reduces Risky Sex
Adolescents who go off to college for six month’s at a time are less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior as shown by statistics conducted on numbers of students and those who opt not to go to college after high school. This may give credit to the education campaigns being done all over but [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2009 under Condoms, Information, Prevention.
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CDC Statistics 4 in 5 US Teens Suffer from STD’s
The binge culture and reckless attitude of the younger generation has led to a grave increase to incidents of STD’s which unbeknown to them has the ability to ruin their futures as parents. STD and unwarranted sex have been linked and teens are the one greatly at risk. Education is the key but cultural outlook [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2008 under Condoms, Information, Prevention, Treatment.
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Teenagers are more prone to STD
image source: www.netterimages.com Many people nowadays are really impulsive, most especially teenagers. Teenagers of today try a lot of stuffs Smoking, drinking alcohol and sexual intercourse with their so called girl friend or boy friend to name a few. But with every sexual fulfillment of a person there is always a negative side. What you [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Chlamydia, Condoms, Gonorrhea, HIV/AIDS, Information, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Prevention, Q & A, Symptoms, Treatment, Trichomoniasis.
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AIDS and HIV
• Transmitted through- AIDS and HIV are two more or les related diseases. The HIV stands for the ‘human immunodeficiency virus’ and the disease that spreads through it is known as AIDS i.e. ‘acquired immune deficiency syndrome’. HIV travels through blood. It can be transmitted from one HIV positive person to his partner through sex. [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under HIV/AIDS, Information, Prevention, Symptoms, Treatment.
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