Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Give background/facts of STDs. “These findings are helpful for understanding chronic pain patients and the challenges they face, but why is teaching important for this group? Patients facing these hardships feel a lack of control over their lives, and have reduced self-confidence. This increases the risk that chronic patients will not adhere to treatment protocols and will have reduced ability and desire to self-manage care (Barrie, 2010). During a teaching session, the nurse is able to provide nonjudgmental and respectful support. It is an opportunity to honestly discuss the importance of compliance, risks and adverse effects associated with that treatment, and to provide information about pain relief

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, which can damage the reproductive organs of women. This disease has been increasing over the years with the largest number infected during the famous and expected spring break holiday which a lot of high school and college kids participate. During Spring break alcohol, sex and drugs are encouraged within kids that leads to STD’s and fatal outcomes. Christopher J. Correia in his book College Student Alcohol Abuse (2012) writes that 84% of women and 79% of men reported to have had casual sex during spring break and approximately 44% had sex as a result of alcohol consumption.

Sexually transmitted diseases in the United States are on the rise after several years of decline. Three STD’s in particular are a concern to health care providers: gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. The CDC reports that the reports for chlamydia are up 27% from four years ago (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). The numbers are even more startling when looking at these three STD’s in St. Louis city. I ask these questions when writing the brief: 1.) Does St. Louis address these rising concerns differently than other metropolitan areas in the nation? And 2.) What have other cities done in the United States to combat the growing number of teenagers and young adults with STDs.

Syphilis, AIDS, herpes, these are something no one wants, unfortunately, thousands live day to day in hiding with these diseases. The number of reported sexually transmitted disease, also known as venereal disease, have greatly increased since the mid-1900s. There are roughly twenty-five different types of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States that we encounter, such as HIV, AIDS, genital warts, chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea, hepatitis, syphilis, vaginitis and trichomonas’s. In most states today, medically, accurate sex education is required to be taught in public schools to the youth community at some point to educate about the uncaring world of sexual diseases. However, the processes to educate our youth are simply outdated

After reading Meeker’s (2004) book and reflection upon Meeker’s psychologically, spiritually, and medically concepts regarding the sexual health of our teenagers, I found Meeker’s concepts and information regarding teenagers sexual health to be, important, concrete, and truthful, which in turns is very resourceful in helping any authority figures who reads this book to be able to understand the severe realities that are teens are facing. As I read Meeker’s (2007) concepts regarding the silent epidemic of Sexually Transmitted diseases among our teenagers, one of the first thing that I wanted to learn more about current statistical rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in teenagers. According to Meeker (2007), our teenagers made up about

Herpes is an extremely common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. In fact, about one in four adults are infected with the virus. Some people that are affected are not completely ignoring the fact that they have the disease, but are simply unaware that they are suffering from the virus. Although the virus stays with you for life, it usually doesn’t lead to any serious life-threatening issues.

Sexually transmitted diseases were a quiet priority for nineteenth century Britain. STDs or venereal diseases were a significant cause of ill and efficient troops around the country as well as in the colonies. It was a ‘quiet’ priority because of the aversion to open conversations about sex in Victorian Britain but the need to have British soldiers less footloose and more fighting-fit. These diseases were a high priority for the British government as they enacted a law solely to attempt to manage the contraction of the infections. The social stigma surrounding sexually transmitted diseases meant that women and women’s morality was targeted to manage venereal diseases rather than targeting the ‘primal’ behaviour of soldiers and other men of

Chlamydia is the most common type of Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) amongst young people. It is also known as ‘the silent STI’ because numerous people don’t even know that they’re even infected with this infection as symptoms don't normally appear until one to three weeks. This infection can both males and females. A person could easily be infected with Chlamydia by having sex such as anal, vaginal or oral with someone who is already infected, and that’s where it all starts. Chlamydia can occur to every individual and each individual have an equal chance in getting infected, however there are consequences of contracting Chlamydia for individuals who lives in urban areas compared to rural areas.

Syphilis is a highly contagious, sexually transmitted disease that can pass from person to person even by kiss occasionally. This disease can cause serious health hazards if not treating right away. What makes this disease dangerous is that it transmitted from sores that are not recognized as syphilis, and the person who carries this disease is unaware of it.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection that can infect both men and women equally. The infection is found most commonly within the youth between ages fifteen and twenty-four years old. It can cause infections to the throat, male and female genitalia, and the rectum. Gonorrhea can be spread through sexual contact. Oral, anal, and vaginal sex are all ways to be infected if one was to have unprotected sex with another person.

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) is one of the listed topics for Healthy people 2020 area for improvement. The importance for prevention of STD is marked by a number of different factors like high yearly increase in infected individuals, rise in healthcare cost, and long-term health care complications associated with untreated STDs. Another significant reason for the importance of STD prevention is nearly half of the new cases of infected individuals are young adults between the ages of 15-24 (U. S. Department of Health & Human Services [HHS], 2015). Adolescents between the age of 15-19 and young adults between the age of 20-24 are at a disproportionate rate in the number of new STD cases yearly, in comparison to adults and older adults (HHS, 2015). Furthermore, not all STD cases are reported or accounted for annually, and case numbers are possibly much higher than the reported incidents that only include Clamydia, Gonorrhea, and syphilis. This target population is at an increase need for safe sex practices to reduce the prevalence of new cases annually. The increase need for education is pivotal for the reduction of new STD cases among adolescents.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are caused by more than 25 infectious pathogens transmitted from one person to the other during anal, vaginal as well as oral intercourse. More so, infected pregnant women can transmit STIs to infants in utero, during birth, or through breastfeeding. The most common STIs in the U.S. include chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, human papillomavirus, trichomoniasis, and bacterial vaginosis (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). According to the Centers for disease control and prevention, CDC (2015), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a common STD affecting more than 1.2 million people in the United States (CDC, 2015). Compared to men, women are more biologically susceptible to STIs. Adolescents and young adults are at higher risk of transmitting STIs due to their sexual behaviors that consists of several partners, unsafe sex without condoms, and endocervical ectopia in female patients (Buttaro et al., 2013).

Bacteria are living, they are not plants nor are they animals but they are a third species all together. Bacteria a prokaryotes, this is an individual cell that doesn’t contain a nucleus. A single bacteria is about the size of a single cell although most of the time there are million of them together as they multiply very quickly. Unlike Bacteria Viruses are non living and hide themselves in cells of living organisms to replicate themselves. Most kinds of viruses are far too small to be seen under a light microscope. Viruses can infect all types of living organisms (plants, animals, etc.). Fungi are very close to plants, compared to viruses and bacteria fungi is a Eukaryote. Fungi, like plants, is a multicellular organism but the key difference

Infections are too common in our world today. Therefore, we must take precautions to prevent the spread of STI’s. The most common sexually transmitted infection in the world is HPV. Luckily, there is a vaccine for it. HPV stands for human papilloma virus. There are 150 different types, some of those being cancerous. “Genital HPV is a common virus that is passed from one person to another through direct skin-to-skin contact during sexual activity. Most sexually active people will get HPV at some time in their lives” ($). The CDC’s advisory committee for immunization practices voted that the best ages for receiving the vaccination for males were ages 11-21 and females 15-25 years old (*). Getting an HPV vaccine is the most common precaution for those who want to avoid sexually transmitted infections.

With a growing world population of approximately 7.4 billion people, there’s no wonder why so many health crises have been exploited over the years (“Population Clock”). From influenza to the ebola virus, dozens of pressing medical issues have been covered by the media over the past years; however, almost all exclude one of the critical happenings for adolescent health worldwide: the rise of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancies in teenagers. The dilapidated subject is often considered too taboo to discuss and evaluating, neglecting current youth and generations to come. The rise of STDs and adolescent pregnancies contributes to a multitude of issues including, but not excluded to, medical complications, social and mental