STI’s have become one of the main sexually transmitted diseases concern within society. A lot of the people who contract the disease are people who have no knowledge about it. As a concerned group, WeCare is an organization that has come to together to develop an organization that educates those who don’t understand the pros and cons of STI. As well as educating those individuals, we will offer tests, counseling, and mentoring to get their lives back on track. The organization will work to find a better solution to those individuals affected by STI.
The World Health Organization (WHO) scientific method community based syndrome approach toward preventing sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections has been effective in regards to prevention, manner spread circulated detecting symptoms. Effective prevention plans and education programs that provide available health care diagnosis and treatment and with prominence on sexual education focusing on behavior intervention, barrier procedures and technics that improve comprehension and conduct. Elements vital in preventing and combating the transmission of infections, viruses and non-communicable diseases some of which have been in health linked to HIV and AIDS. (Valsangkar et al, 2014).
Three hundred and forty million individuals a year between the ages of fifteen to forty nine contract sexually transmitted diseases (STD) (Taglieri et al, 2012). Women who contract pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), the human papilloma virus (HPV) or herpes are more susceptible to having long term complications that affect the overall quality of life and productivity as well as contribute to fetal abnormalities (Valsangkar et al, 2014). Telephone counseling is effective in behavioral interven...
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Taglieri, F., Gallo, P., Colucci, A., Luzi, A., Valli, R., Botta, F., & Lichtner, E. (2012). STDs help line and prevention. Retrovirology, 9(Supplement 1), 1. Doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-9-S1-P122. Retrieved from: http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=76592439&site=ehost-live&scope=site Valsangkar, S., Selvaraju, D., Rameswarapu, R., & Kamutapu, S. (2014). Impairment of Quality of Life in Symptomatic Reproductive Tract Infection and Sexually Transmitted Infection.
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Introduction: Chlamydia Trachomatis is the organism responsible for diseases such as trachoma and the STD Chlamydia. Chlamydia is the most common STD in the United States, with about 4 million new cases diagnosed every year.
Individual level interventions are essential when creating sexual health related interventions that target college aged students. Interventions targeting the individual level of the social ecological model are devised to make an impact on the individual’s knowledge, perception, and self-efficacy, among other factors, in regard to the behavior being changed (Glanz & Rimer, 2005). To find the relevant literature, the following search terms were referenced in both PubMed and Google Scholar: “STI”, “Screening”, “Behavior”, “Knowledge”, “Chlamydia”, “Students”, and “College”. This literature review focuses on interventions that targeted behavior changes in individuals in relation to a variety of STIs, including chlamydia, the outcome of interest.
Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the U.S. in the early 1980s the issue of sex education for American youth has had the attention of the nation. There are about 400,000 teen births every year in the U.S, with about 9 billion in associated public costs. STI contraction in general, as well as teen pregnancy, have put the subject even more so on the forefront of the nation’s leading issues. The approach and method for proper and effective sex education has been hotly debated. Some believe that teaching abstinence-only until marriage is the best method while others believe that a more comprehensive approach, which includes abstinence promotion as well as contraceptive information, is necessary. Abstinence-only program curriculums disregard medical ethics and scientific accuracy, and have been empirically proven to be ineffective; therefore, comprehensive sex education programs which are medically accurate, science-based and empirically proven should be the standard method of sex education for students/children in the U.S.
The history of STDs is divided into three distinct sections through different periods of time. The first is the era of antiquity when if STDs did exist, no one was sure of what they were. The second was a period of about five-hundred years when such diseases could be identified, but almost nothing could be done to treat them. In the third, in the 20th century, medical professionals began to devise effective treatments for treating STDs and identifying/preventing different ways it spread (Plumb 1). Until about the 18th century, people had no idea there was more than one STD, and thought all were the same disease. The term for an STD was known as venereal disease (VD). The word “venereal” is from Venus, the Roman goddess of love (Talukdar 2). In ancient Egypt, dating back to about 1600 B.C, th...
HIV/STD is a prevalent pandemic that affects thousands of people in Europe, Africa, and United States. More than 15 million sexually transmitted disease occur in the United States (CITE CDC). Doctors and various health professionals have sought after the prevention of HIV/STD, but health professionals have come to a conclusion stating that health promotion is the best way to beat the pandemic with the help of patients. “Rates of curable STDs in the United States, the highest in the developed world, are higher than in some developing countries. “(CDC) “STDs account for 87% of th...
Brindis et al. conducted research to identify reasons that would make health care providers give as much reproductive health information to men as they do to women. In this research, the authors develop reasons that show why men need reproductive health information. This research proposes this could be an excellent strategy in curbing increasing adolescence pregnancy. The research holds that men need more sex education as a form of protection against sexually transmitte...
It is imperative that sexually active people get tested because some STD’s if not can be life threating if gone untreated. To stop the spread of disease, it is important that sexual partners and health care professionals are informed of any diseases. Once diagnosed it is the responsibly of heath care providers to report each case to the local health department, who then must
Today it is no longer a novelty to hear that teenagers are having sex. However, while this “bedroom” activity may be fun, there are now ample reports indicating that rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in teenagers have skyrocketed. Current data reveal that nearly 25% of adolescent girls who have sex are infected with one of the four commonly sexually transmitted infections-namely gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes and HIV (Kann et al, 2015). Nationally, the prevalence of STDs account for 50% of cases in people under the age of 25. While every ethnic and race has been known to be affected, African American youth are disproportionately affected. These data are not a surprise to professionals who are engaged in adolescent sexual health because the numbers have been slowly creeping up over the decades, despite national educational policies to counter the threat of STDs (Sales & DiClemente, 2016). All the STDs have a significant impact on sexual and reproductive health, if they are mot promptly diagnosed and treated. Although many preventive strategies have been implemented in all communities, the rates of STDs are still increasing (Madkour et al, 2016).
Not surprisingly the lack of useful sexual information is one of the reasons of the spreading sex related diseases. According to The American Social Health Association (1998) each year there are near ten million of new cases of sexually transmitted diseases among the teenage...
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases STDs, a.k.a venereal diseases, infectious diseases passed from one person to another during sexual contact. STDs are the most common infections known. More than 12 million people in the United States, including 3 million teenagers, are infected with STDs every year. The United States has the highest STD rate in the world about one in ten Americans will contract an STD during his or her lifetime. People who do not know they are infected risk infecting their sexual partners and, in some cases, their unborn children. If left untreated, these diseases may cause pain or may destroy a woman's ability to have children. Some STDs can be cured with a single dose of antibiotics, but AIDS cannot be cured. Those most at risk for contracting STDs are people who have unprotected sex—without using a condom, people who have multiple partners, and people whose sex partners are drug users who share needles. Static’s show that Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 are most likely of catching STDs than older adults, because younger people usually have multiple sexual partners than an older person in a long-term relationship. Teenagers may be embarrassed to tell their sexual partners they are infected Teenagers may also be embarrassed or unable to seek medical attention for STDs. This means that they only more likely to pass the disease to other young people and have a greater risk of suffering the long-term consequences of untreated STDs. STDs are transmitted by infectious bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and single-celled organisms called protozoa that live in warm, moist parts of the body, like the genital area, mouth, and throat. Most STDs are spread while having sex, but oral sex can also spread disease. Some STDs are passed from a mother to her child while pregnant, when the disease enters the baby's bloodstream, during childbirth as the baby passes through the birth canal, or after birth, when the baby drinks infected breast milk. AIDS can be transmitted by blood contact such as open wounds, between people who share infected needles or received through an injection of infected blood. Some people believe that STDs can be transmitted through shaking hands or other casual contact, or through contact with inanimate objects such as clothing or toilet seats, but they can’t. Chlamydeous, is from trachoma is bacterium, is the most commonly transmitted STD in the United States.
Young adults between the ages of fifteen to twenty-four contract half of all new sexually transmitted diseases (STD) recorded, also in sexually active females, one in four have been exposed to an STD (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) 2016). The occurrence of STDs among young adults in the United States in 2007 was that 1.1 million was diagnoses with them (Dembo et al., 2009). Over 7.5% of STDs have increased during 2006 (Dembo et al., 2009), the highest between the ages of fifteen to twenty-four within the past year STDs have increased in testing positive, males increased to 37%, females increased to 70% (Cunningham et al., 2009). As of today, the largest increase of STDs among young adults had been researched a rate of fifty point one million percent STD between 2006 and 2014 (CDC, 2015). STD has dramatically increased in the past few years, there are treatments for young adults in how to prevent catching STDs. This paper will discuss the varying growth of different types of STDs, STD-related stigma, and prevention of STDs among young adults.
...lomavirus (HPV), pelvic inflammatory disease, syphilis, trichomoniasis, vaginal infections, and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including recent facts about prevalence, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention : along with tips on discussing and living with STDs, updates on current research and vaccines, a glossary of related terms, and resources for additional help and information (4th ed.). Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics.
To decrease HIV transmission and to minimise the impact of the epidemic, on children, young people and families, through the growing effectiveness of national action to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the East of Asia and the Pacific regions. They aim to provide practical support and aid at community level, encouraging the full engament of people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Sexually transmitted diseases flourish in a society of premarital sex, where teens have many sex partners. A direct result of this, is STD's becoming more abundant among the population. One reason for the plague of STD's is the misuse of contraceptives by teens. Many teens believe that condoms, or the pill prohibit the spread of herpes, AIDS, or other diseases, but in fact, they do not stop the spread, and no where do the products state that they do stop the spread of STDs. Three million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases among teens are reported each year. Many teens that believe nothing is wrong in committing premarital sex have intercourse with many different teens through the ages of 15 and 19, and increase the chance of spreading sexually transmitted diseases each time. With sexual intercourse on the rise with high school students, and its acceptance among the public, even more teens are having sex now, to the point that every eleven seconds a teen has sex for their first time. Seventy percent of these students say they were socially pressured into having sex. If society has the power to pressuring teens to have sex, society ought to use that power to educate teems about the dangers of premarital sex.