Download Sexually Transmitted Infections

Nickee Palacios
Future Method
Weber-Morgan Health Department
 The media most often portrays the EMOTIONAL side
of sexual activity.
 Hurt, rejection, pregnancy, destroyed reputation,
and STIs
 Bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections that a person
can ONLY get through sexual activity
 Bacterial and parasitic infections can be cured with
medications
 Viral infections, such as AIDS and herpes, have NO known
cure.
 More than 25 different STIs
 Over 95% of all STDs are contracted through sexual
intercourse.
Every time you have sexual contact
with another person you run the risk
of getting an STD.
 Mutual lifetime MONOGOMY is the most
effective way to prevent getting STDs.
 Birth control pills DO NOT prevent STDs from
being contracted.
 Most STDs can be TREATED.
 Even if the symptoms of the STD disappears, the
disease may still be doing damage to the body.
 Once you are CURED of an STD, you can still be
reinfected.
 Northern Utah Coalition : 393-4153
 People with AIDS Coalition of Utah:
484-2205
 Planned Parenthood: 479-7721
 Weber-Morgan Health Dept.: 399-7180
 Utah AIDS Foundation: 1-800-FON-AIDS
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 Bacterial
 The most WIDLY SPREAD STD.
 Transmitted by:
 Sexual contact (vaginal, anal, and oral sex)
with an infected partner
 Mother to child
 75% of women and 50% of men have no
signs or symptoms
 Abnormal discharge from penis or vagina
 Abnormal discharge from penis or vagina
 Burning feeling when urinating
 Rectal pain, discharge or bleeding
 Can be found in throat
 Women:
 Pain during intercourse
 Painful periods
 Men:
 Burning and itching around the opening of the
penis
 Women
 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
(PID)
 Infertility
 Ectopic pregnancies
 Chronic pelvic pain
 Increased risk of getting HIV
 Men
 Infection of the urethra
 Spread to the tube that
carries sperm from the testis
 Increased risk of getting HIV
 In babies
 Linked to premature
delivery
 Low birth weight
 Respiratory disease
 Eye infections, blindness in
severe cases
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 Bacterial STI
 Grows and multiplies in warm, moist, dark
areas of the reproductive tract
 Cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, urethra,
rectum, anus, mouth, throat, and eyes
 Transmitted by:
 Sexual Contact (vaginal, anal and oral sex)
 Mother to child
 Creamy or green pus-like discharge
 Creamy or green pus-like discharge
 Painful urination
 Sore throat
 Rectal Infection
 Constipation, itching, painful bowel movements
 Men
 Testicular pain
 Women
 Bleeding between periods or excessive bleeding during period
 Irritation of vulva
 Painful intercourse
 Men
 Epididymitis
 Scarring in urine canal
 Women
 Major cause of PID
 Ectopic pregnancies
 Both
 Can spread to blood or
joints
 Risk of HIV infection
increases
 Newborns
 Pass to baby through
birth canal
 Joint infection
 Life-threatening blood
infection
 Eye infection or
blindness
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 Bacterial STI
 Four Stages
 Primary
 Secondary
 Latent
 Tertiary
 Transmitted by:
 Direct contact with a syphilis sore
 Vaginal, anal, or oral sex
 Mother to child
 Primary Stage
 Appearance of a painless sore called a chancre
 Sore forms where bacteria enters the body
 Secondary Stage
 Appears after chancre
has gone away
 Rough, red or reddish-brown
rash on the bottom of the
feet and the palms of the
hands
 Latent Stage
 “Hidden Stage”
 No signs or symptoms for years as bacteria
multiplies and causes damage to the body
 Tertiary Stage
 Damage the heart and brain
 Attacks the eyes, blood vessels, liver, bones, and
joints
 Paralysis, numbness, blindness, dementia, and
death
 Easier to get and spread HIV
 Newborns
 Can become infected while still in womb
 Miscarriage, stillbirth
 Left untreated
 Deformities
 Delays in development
 Seizures
 Death
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 Most common viral STI
 30 different virus can infect the genital area
 Genital warts
 Cervical cancer
 Most people don’t know that they have it
 Body’s immune system fights the virus in about 2 years
 No cure, but it can be treated
 Transmitted by:
 Touching the genitals of an infected partner
 Genital Warts – raised, flat, single,
multiple,
small, large,
looks like the
top of
cauliflower
 Cervical Cancer
 No early signs or symptoms
 Helps protect against 4 types of HPV
 2 types that cause 70% of cervical cancer cases
 2 types that cause 90% of genital wart cases
 For girls and young women ages 9-26
 Three doses over 6 months
 Vaccine doesn’t protect everyone or every type of
HPV
 Important to get routine cervical cancer
screenings
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 Very common viral STI
 45 million people currently infected in the U.S.
 1 in 4 women and 1 in 5 men
 Two types
 HSV-1 (infects the mouth and lips, “cold sores”)
 HSV-2 (infects the genital area)
 Transmitted by:
 Sexual activity (vaginal, anal, oral sex)
 Skin-to-Skin contact (hand-to-genital or genital-to-genital)
 Mother to child
 Can be given to another person even if no blisters are present
 Small red bumps appear, develop into blisters, then
become painful and itchy sores
 Women and Men
 No serious health
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concerns
Virus stay in body for life
Outbreaks can be severe
in people with weakened
immune systems
Makes people more at
risk to HIV infection
Makes HIV+ people more
infectious
 Newborns and babies
 Can be born with a
herpes infection
 Serious brain, skin or
eye problems
 Death a possibility
 Mother will be given a
C-section to avoid
transmission to baby
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 HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
 HIV can be transmitted through BLOOD, vaginal
secretions and semen.
 The HIV/AIDS virus must pass from one person’s body
fluids in to another BLOOD STREAM.
 A positive HIV antibody test means that the person has
been infected by HIV and can PASS IT ON.
 AIDS is contracted through intravenous drug use and/or
SEXUAL ACTIVITY.
 AIDS is characterized by a reduction in white blood cell
count and it can cause DEATH.
 AIDS doesn’t kill the person, opportunistic infections
do
Kaposi's Sarcoma
Identified opportunistic infections
1. Bacterial infections
2. Cancers
3. Viral infections
4. Fungal infections
5. Protozoal infections
6. Neurological Conditions
7. Canker sores
8. Wasting syndrome
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 Caused by a parasite
 Symptoms
 Men
 Rarely have symptoms
 Women
 Genital itching
 Green-white or yellow
discharge
 Foul odor
 Painful urination or
intercourse
 Transmission
 Sexual intercourse
 Insect
 Sucks on blood
 Lives on course hair
 Symptoms
 Very itchy
 See spots on skin and pubic
hair
 Transmitted by:
 Sexual contact
 Sharing clothing, towels,
sheets, etc. with an infected
person
 Can be treated with
medicated shampoos