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Sexuality and STDs

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

Sexuality and STDs

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

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