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STD
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HOW
DO I GET IT?
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HOW
DO I KNOW IF I HAVE IT?
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IS
IT CURABLE? CAN CONDOMS PREVENT IT?
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WHAT
IF I DON’T GET TREATED?
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CHLAMYDIA
(NGU, NSU)
|
Sexual
fluids exchanged during oral and vaginal sex
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Often no symptoms.
Sometimes discharge or pain when urinating. |
Yes, it is curable.
Yes, condoms can prevent chlamydia |
Sterility, chronic pain and other serious complications.
Can be passed to child during birth. |
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GONORRHEA
|
Sexual
fluids exchanged during oral and vaginal sex
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Men-Often
discharge, sometimes burning or pain when urinating.
Women-Sometimes pain when urinating,
abnormal vaginal bleeding, white discharge from vagina, severe
abdominal pain in later stage of illness. Sometimes no symptoms.
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YES, it is curable.
YES, condoms can prevent gonorrhea. |
Sterility, chronic pain and other serious complications.
Can be passed to child during birth |
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SYPHILIS
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Skin-to-skin
contact during oral, anal, and vaginal sex or other sexual
activity
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1st
Stage: Painless sores for about a week.
2nd
Stage: Rash and flu-like symptoms for about a week.
Most
of the time:
No symptoms for years.
|
YES,
it is curable if treated in time.
Condoms
may or may not prevent transmission of syphilis.
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Brain
damage, heart problems, blindness, death.
Can
be passed to child during birth, causing serious birth defects.
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GENITAL
HERPES
|
Skin-to-skin
contact during oral, anal, and vaginal sex or other sexual
activity
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Blisters
on sex organs.
Pain
and itching.
|
NO,
it is not curable
NO,
condoms are not reliable at preventing herpes
|
Symptoms
continue.
Can
be passed to child during birth.
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GENITAL
WARTS
(HPV)
|
Skin-to-skin
contact during oral, anal, and vaginal sex or other sexual
activity
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Small
bumps on or around sex organs or anus.
Sometimes
itching or genital burning.
|
NO,
it is not curable.
NO, condoms are not reliable at preventing HPV |
Symptoms
continue
Can
be passed to child during birth
|
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HIV/AIDS
|
Sexual
fluids exchanged during oral, anal, and vaginal sex or contact
with infected blood
|
Years
with no symptoms.
|
NO,
it is not curable.
YES, latex and polyurethane condoms can reduce the risk
of HIV infection |
Severe
illness, death.
Can
be passed to child during birth or breast feeding
|
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HEPATITIS
B
|
Sexual
fluids exchanged during oral, anal, and vaginal sex or contact
with infected blood or saliva
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Flu-like,
tired feeling, yellow skin, dark urine or light colored bowel
movement.
|
Sometimes,
Hepatitis B gets cured, but some people remain infectious
with no symptoms.
Since sharing saliva can spread it, condoms may not be effective
at preventing Hepatitis B.
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Permanent
liver damage
Can
be passed to child during birth.
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PUBIC
LICE (crabs)
|
Oral,
anal and vaginal sex
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Severe
itching.
|
YES,
it is curable.
NO, condoms don’t prevent it |
Uncomfortable
symptoms continue
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TRICHOMONAS |
Oral,
anal and vaginal sex
|
Men
- Usually no symptoms.
Women - Unusual discharge from
vagina, vaginal itching.
|
YES,
it is curable.
YES, condoms can prevent it. |
Uncomfortable
symptoms continue
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