Unprotected Sex

Next, a very useful way to stay STD free is to know your status. Most students today have no clue they are infected and unknowingly pass it on to partners or spouses. The government has made available health clinics where check up’s to know your status on STD’s are free. Clinics are also places where treatment can be given, if a certain STD is found and is treatable. Many students are embarrassed or scared to know their status and would rather just live their lives, not knowing their status. This mindset among citizens is very selfish, which can lead to the danger of others. In the sense of a woman knowing her status, she will be able to determine if birth is still an option if a certain STD has affected her fertility. Offspring’s are also kept safe, so parents can make wise decisions on whether diseases would be passed on off

Teens end up getting sexually transmitted diseases because they are unaware of the consequences of unprotected sex. No abstinence-only program affected the incidence of unprotected vaginal sex (The Australian). Annually 3 million teenagers contract STDs from their partner (Robert Rector). Teens who have early sex not only suffer from STDs, they also have emotional and physical damage. Research shows that young people who become sexually

But unless you're in a mutually monogamous relationship with someone who has never had sex, you're at risk. Stigma leads devastating consequences and hidden information on the virus. Around the world, there have been all sorts of different reactions to the Herpes epidemic, from silence and denial to hostility. The fear of being labeled or socially relegated makes many people prefer not to be tested for the virus, or avoid treatment in the case of people with STD. Those who have or think they have the virus suffer, in some cases, rejection or abuse, unemployment, and exclusion from the health system. This kind of reactions represent a serious obstacle to prevention efforts and treatment, as further exacerbate the effects of the epidemic.

As mentioned before, some strains of HPV can lead to oral and cervical cancers and condoms are not completely reliable when it comes to protection. Currently, options are limited for both prevention of infection of patients with HPV-associated disease: infection can only be prevented with complete abstinence from all forms of sexual activity because condoms do not offer complete protection from HPV and HPV can be transmitted by nonintromissive sexual activities (Weaver, 2006). Teaching teenagers about safe sex falls on caregivers which include parents. Teenagers who do not have a stable home life, whether the parents work all the time, or there is only a single parent, are more at risk because they less likely to be supervised adequately. This is the reason it is so important to educate these teenagers about sex and STIs.

The challenge of STD represents a complex issue for which many people do not have enough information. However, there are many that are facing this reality on a daily basis. According to the World Health Organizations two-thirds of the planet’s population under 50 lives with HSV-1, the strain of herpes that can be transmitted without penetrative sex. Moreover, approximately 80% of people with herpes are not aware that they have it. The ones that are aware, often face stigmas and stereotypes from other people in the society. That is why, it is imperative to understand that this controversial issue should not discourage meeting HSV singles or people with herpes.

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

While most of those affected by Herpes contracted the virus as teenagers or young adults, there are cases where children as well as the elderly are contracting the disease due to the many ways the disease can be transmitted.

“Weee Woo, Weee Woo, Weee Woo,” is the sound outside as an ambulance arrives to take away your coughing daughter. The ambulance, as well as you and your wife or husband, head to the hospital where you see your daughter being taken to the E.R. Your daughter looks extremely fatigued. She keeps coughing and scratching as a red rash over takes her back and arm. Doctors are wearing protective gear trying to lessen the girl’s symptoms, while you and your wife or husband are placed into quarantine. You cry your eyes out and ask, “Why did it have to happen to her?!” Well, this entire situation could have been entirely avoided. Although, it may seem a bit dramatic, this is very real, and a similar situation happened early February in 2014 when a UC Berkeley student was infected with measles due to his parents denying doctors to vaccinate him as a child. This incident caused panic as possibly thousands were possibly exposed to the virus, but most likely they would be safe, except for the student of course due to him now having to deal with an

This can become a problem at times, especially when looking at the public school system. Within public schools there is such a broad range of individuals that it is hard to know if someone may be carrying a sexually transmitted disease. By requiring children to get vaccinated communities might be able to decrease HPV in their area. Decreasing this problem might not only be good for the individual, but for the community itself. Girls who might have contracted the disease will be able to focus in school better and thus give more back to society in the long run. Studies have shown that students who are taught about condom use are no more likely to engage in sexual activity than those who aren’t. It can only be assumed that the same can be said about the HPV vaccine. In knowing these facts many individuals may opt to protect their family against this virus. This is a point where both science and the government need to find space between the individual. When families are able to gain knowledge and make informed decisions without feeling pressured they can actually begin to help the

Some complications are mother-infant transmission and neonatal HSV infection. In a newborn, herpes can cause organ failure, brain infection, and sometimes even death. If you may have genital herpes, do not have sexual contact until your test results are back. You can lower the chance of spreading the disease to your partner. A diagnosis of genital herpes can easily dismissed or delayed because in most cases there are no symptoms. Symptoms like headache, swollen lymph glands, fever, chills, and fatigue can mimic symptoms for other viral infections.

In my opinion, when I read chapter eighteen “ First Comes Love, Then Comes Herpes: Sexual Health and Relationship”, I have support to this chapter. In the present, sexual transmitted diseases have spread more than before, and a lot of people do not have information about the safer sex. Although the sexual transmitted diseases have spread, people do not try to safe themselves. However, I agree with the education does not educate young people about the safer sex. I am compelling about the condom is a way to protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, some parents do not teach their children to protect themselves from risks sexual. For example, my family does not teach me about the sex before I am marriage. Therefore, when

A common STD teens contract is herpes. Approximately one in four Americans are infected with genital herpes; there is no known cure for this STD. The herpes virus can be transmitted during sexual activity, and can also be transmitted to other parts of the body through touch. Therefore, condoms do not always offer protection against this STD. Similar to other STDs, many individuals who are infected with herpes suffer no symptoms. Eighty percent of people with genital herpes do not develop any symptoms, but can transmit the virus to other people. (Autumn, 1998.)

The more frequent occurrence of STDs in the younger generations are also based upon the multiple barriers in retrieving the benefits in STD prevention services which includes the lack of health insurance or inability to pay, no transportation, embarrassment of the services in the facilities, and worries of discretion. (STDs) According to the US Department of Health and Human Service, twenty five percent of sexually active adolescents have already obtained an STD. (Parillo) The severity of the issue is approached with the control strategies and educational strategies. In which these educational strategies are more effective when it involves a big health educational program that is provided to our minors. The young populations that are particularly affected by STDs are the young women with a low income for it is easier for a female to receive an STD compared to men. And with those women having a low income, they are not able to access the services that are being provided to them. Today, four in ten sexually active adolescent girls have obtained an STD that can cause infertility and death; also two thirds of adolescent boys have HIV diagnoses.

Some people do not seek treatment for STIs, because they are simply unaware of the infection. Unaware in the sense of not knowing what a STI is, and how dangerous it could become if it is undetected. Numerous of individuals are uneducated on the issue or have very little knowledge about it. There is a massive amount of individuals that are unfamiliar with the different forms of a STI, and how it is transmitted. Others are simply frightened, mortified, and or very nonchalant about the issue entirely. I believe our upbringing and the environment we live in, plays a major role in how we accept, see and deal with things as a whole.

Millions of people die from AIDS and some are living with diseases such as; Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and genital warts. But if kids have no knowledge about these things, how can we expect them to know any better.