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Article #98: What Are Sexually Transmitted Diseases?

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Contagious diseases that are spread from very necessary that he/she stop all
one partner to the other during sexual sexual activity. It is a moral
intercourse are called as sexually responsibility of any person to check the
transmitted diseases, or by their very further spread of the STD. Also the
popular anagram, STDs. STDs can affect person must make it amply clear to his
anybody within the sphere of sexual her spouse that he/she is a victim of the
population; hence it can be said that all infection. All STDs except AIDS are
STDs are global problems. Some of the treatable and the treatment is much more
very common STDs that are affecting the effective if it is started at an early
world population today are syphilis, stage.
gonorrhea, genital herpes, Chlamydia Treatment of STDs adopts several
infection, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and different ways depending on which is the
AIDS. cause of infection. In conditions like
STDs are mainly transmitted due to genital herpes, where there is no cure,
penetrative sexual intercourse, i.e. when the infection may last throughout the
the man inserts his penis into the vagina life of the person. Alarmingly, this
of the female. But most of the STDs can disease is found among about half a
also pass on during other types of sexual million in the US alone. Chlamydia is
activities like oral sex and anal sex. another issue that requires constant
The microorganisms causing these diseases screening to prevent from becoming an
could be viruses, bacteria or fungi and epidemic. Doctors surreptitiously check
they can generally live in most of the teens for such infections. Conditions
body fluids. The chances of sexually like hepatitis A and hepatitis B are
transmitted diseases are very high when a thought to be self-resolving with little
person has sex with many partners, or has medication.
sex with a person who has many partners. One bigger concern with the sexually
Most STDs can be prevented by using a transmitted diseases is the large number
condom during any kind of sexual contact of complications they can cause. Most of
with a person of unknown sexual history. the STDs can cause impotence in men and
Since there are many STDs, there are also infertility in women. Men could suffer
many symptoms. Syphilis, which is also from erectile dysfunctions, while both
known as the French disease is men and women can suffer from pain during
diagnosable by the presence of urination and/or several abnormalities in
button-sized warts called chancres near the flow or urine. Add to that, there
the genital area. These chancres could could be severe itching, pain, tenderness
also develop on the anus and in the and blisters on the affected area. This
throat region. Gonorrhea is commonly could indeed make life miserable for the
known as the clap or the drip disease. person as long as the STD lasts.
With a gonorrheal infection, a person Hepatitis A and hepatitis B can cause
will have continuous mucus-like discharge severe liver problems in the long run.
from the penis or from the vulva. In There could be cirrhosis of the liver, or
people with genital herpes, there are liver cancer, both of which are fatal
blister-like ulcers developed around the conditions. AIDS is the most dangerous of
genitals. With almost all STDs, there are all sexual infections. It has no
urinary problems. treatment yet, and the only option with
Prevention of STDs is mostly through this disease is death.
abstinence. Out of all the sexually Sexually transmitted diseases are found
transmitted diseases in humans, only two more commonly among the sexually teen
of them - hepatitis A and hepatitis B - population of the developed countries.
are preventable by vaccination, but the This population is generally ignorant
others aren't. The best way of preventing about the repercussions of unsafe sex,
them is then to limit the number of and therefore indulges in it till it is
sexual partners, and to have sex only too late. With age comes experience, and
with people whose sexual history is hence STDs are found to a lesser extent
properly known about. Using a condom is in the older population. Tourists are
also a good option, but if the condom is responsible for carrying STDs from one
used in the wrong way, then it may lead part of the globe to the other, and so
to an infection. Also, condoms are not also people who visit commercial sex
guaranteed protection. Condoms can only workers are very much accountable.
prevent the penis from coming in touch Only proper education can control the
with the skin of the other partner; but problem of STDs. Governments of various
it cannot prevent the rest of the genital nations are taking serious steps in
area from coming into contact. Syphilis eradicating the problem. School syllabi
sores which are present all around the contain references of such diseases, and
genital area can be transmitted even condoms are being freely distributed by
after using a condom. charitable institutions to vulnerable
Once a person is sexually infected, it is populations.






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