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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 are [...]

Gonorrhea, also spelt gonorrhoea (and once known as the clap), is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrheoae. It affects both men and women and can infect the cervix, urethra, rectum, anus and throat. Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Global gonorrhea statistics show that an estimated [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 don’t [...]

• 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. [...]

The disease is more commonly transmitted through contact or ingestion of infected stool or blood from already infected people. Rarely is the disease transmitted through sexual interaction but some practices of the act can indeed become the main source of infection and transmission. There are currently 5 known variants of the disease and the most [...]