sexuality

• Abstinence: Choosing not to be sexually intimate

• Sexually Intimate: Any behavior that can result in pregnancy or STD’s/STI’s

STIs and STDs

chlamydia

• Most Common Bacterial STI

• Signs:

  • Women-abdominal pain, nausea, fever

  • Men-discharge, painful urination, pain and swelling in testicles

• Consequences:

  • Sterility

• *50% of infected men have no symptoms and 75% of infected women have no symptoms

• *2 million become infected nationwide each year

genital warts

• aka Human Papillomavirus

• Signs:

  • small growths on vagina, cervix, penis, urethra

• Consequences:

  • No permanent cure, may lead to cervical cancer

• HPV is extremely common and infects an estimated 14 million people annually in the United States. Today 79 million living with HPV

• There are 40 types of HPV viruses

• The vaccine helps with the 4 most common types

herpes

• no cure

• Signs:

  • Small sores in genital area

• Consequences:

  • During pregnancy-may cause stillbirth

• *Around 85-90% of people don’t know they have it. An estimated 55 million (or 1 in 6) persons age 12 and older in the United States have genial herpes

gonorrhea

• Bacterial infection

• Signs:

  • Cloudy or yellow discharge, burning during urination

• Consequences:

  • Sterility

• *555,000 people a year in the U.S. are infected

syphilis

• Signs:

  • Chancre sore, rash

• Consequences:

  • Heart failure, blindness, mental disturbance, paralysis, and death

• *An estimated 30,000 people become infected with syphilis each year

  in the United States.

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)

• AIDS is a condition that is caused by an infection with a virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).  HIV damages the immune system and eventually cripples the body’s ability to fight disease.

  • HIV becomes AIDS if their T-helper cell count falls below 200 and/or they develop certain serious diseases or conditions such as pneumonia.  AIDS is the end stage of the HIV infection

  • HIV is spread through:

    • Sexual Intercourse

    • Sharing needles

    • Pregnancy:  Infected mother to child

    • Blood to blood contact