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What is safer sex?
Contraception and Prevention of Infection
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Types of Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Viruses
- Bacteria
- Protozoa
- Fungi
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Viral STI's (viruses)
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Human Papilloma Virus
- Herpes Simplex Type 2
- Genital Herpes
- Hepatitis A,B,D, and G
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Increasing heterosexual transmission
- Open wound is susceptible for virus to come in
- Opportunistic infection causes death
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Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
- Genital Warts
- Chronic Infection
- Carriers without lesions
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Herpex Simplex Type 2
- Itching
- Blisters
- Painful Ulcers
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Genital Herpes
- After healing, disease present but latent
- Triggered by stress, sunlight, hormone changes
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Hepatitis A,B,D,and G
- Inflammation or infection in the liver
- 6-7 different types
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Hepatitis A
Fecal contamination of water and/or food stuff
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Hepatitis B
Can be passed through by blood, sexual secretions, or breast milk
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Hepatisis D
- Present only with Hepatitis B
- Through sexual secretions
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Hepatitis G*
Co-infection
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Bacterial STI's
- Chlamydia
- Gonorrhea
- Syphilis
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Chlamydia
- Most commonly transferred STI in the US
- Vaginal, anal, oral sex transmission
- Usually silent; women often reinfected
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Gonorrhea
- GU, eye, throat infection
- Throat symptoms same as strep throat
- Blindness in newborn if no c-section
- VERY antibiotic resistant
- Can affect joints and heart also
- Can spread infections to other parts of the body
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Syphilis
- Congenital (mother with it will have it cross the placenta and have the baby born with it)
- Multiple Stages
- -Primary Syphilis
- -Secondary Syphilis
- -Latent Syphilis
- -Tertiary Syphilis
- -Cogenital Syphilis
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Primary Syphilis
- Chancre at the site of infections (painless ulcer)
- Painless
- Lesions heals spontaneously
- Disease will progress
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Secondary Syphilis
- Non-itchy rash
- Palms and soles too
- Disappears
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Latent Syphilis*
Being pregnant in this stage has 40% still birth rate
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Tertiary Syphilis
- Gumma - Affects joints, you can get arthritis, and eyes can cause blindness. Can go to brain.
- Psychological disturbances
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Cogenital Syphilis
- "Being born with a second degree burns all over their body"
- 40% Stillbirths
- 40-70% cogenital syphilis of live births transmitted through placenta
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Trichomonas
Leads to premature birth (6-7 months)
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Crabs (Pubic Lice)
Anywhere there is hair
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Candida*
Keeps out other opportunistic infections
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Pelvis Inflammatory Disease (PID)
- Affects more women than gonorrhea
- 8% sexually active female population
- Most caused by STI
- Will "hide" between attacks
- Major cause of female infertility
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PID complications
- Infertility
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Recurrent PID
- Ectopic pregnancy - baby does not go into the uterus to implant and grow, but implants outside the uterus and implants in the fallopian tube
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