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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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Gonorrhea: symptoms, treatment and prevention
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 [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2010 under Prevention, Symptoms, Treatment.
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Common Symptoms of STIs
If you’ve ever had sex, you may be at risk for having an STI. Your risk is higher if you have had many sex partners, have had sex with someone who has had many partners or have had sex without using condoms. Some common symptoms of STIs are listed below. Common signs/symptoms of STIs Itching [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2010 under Symptoms.
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Cervicitis
The disease is an infection that results in the inflammation of the cervix which is the lower part of the uterus that opens into the vagina. This condition is often result of an infection by Chalmydia or gonorrhea or other the many other viral/bacterial infections that cause STD’s. The condition is quite hard to detect [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2009 under Information, Symptoms, Treatment.
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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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Ecto-parasitic Infections (Crabs)
As the name implies, these STD arise from the occurrence of parasites on the pubic hairs or skin after contact with infected people. Transmitted through close physical contact, it can affect the skin, hair or both depending on the parasite involved. The two most common are Pubic Lice and Scabies, both of which are attributed [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2009 under Information, Symptoms, Treatment.
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Warts in Your Private Part
Image Source: aapredbook.aappublications.org Genital warts are also called venereal warts. They are soft wart-like growths on the genitals caused by a viral skin disease like HPV which is a sexually transmitted disease. It may be small, flat, flesh-colored bumps or tiny, cauliflower-like bumps. Most people who have those strains never develop warts or any other [...]
Posted: November 29th, 2008 under Symptoms.
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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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Non-Gonococcal Urethritis
The disease is an infection caused by one of many pathogens (bacteria) such as Chalmydia trachomatis, Ureplasma urealyticum, AdenoVirus, Haemophilus vaginalis, Mycoplasm genitalium, Trichomonas vaginalis and Herpes simplex Virus. The later two are the rarest forms and the most common cause is Chlamydia with men more akin to contracting the disease than women due to [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2008 under Information, Symptoms, Treatment.
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