Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), diseases like HIV, Gonorrhea, HPV, Chlamydia can be transmitted by having sex or any sexual contact. They may also be transmitted from a mother to her child before or at birth. Sexual transmitted diseases usually affect many organs like the genitals, the reproductive tract, the urinary tract, the oral cavity, the anus, or the rectum. The big key to prevent these dangerous diseases is by using condom, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica .
According to the article The Health Site Published by Pavitra Sampath in November 29/2013, HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system and your immune system protects you from germs that cause infections and make you sick. This disease is the most known disease in the word and is one of the most dangerous diseases. And when when you are infected by HIV many times, the disease becomes stronger and more difficult for the treatment of the infection. If you thought that HIV is transmitted only by sexual contact, you are wrong. HIV is also transmitted by sharing with people that have the disease, and by infected blood or having contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person (semen, milk or fluids from the vagina). This is important to remember that the person can get infected when the fluid enters to the body of the other person through either an open sore in the mouth or the anus or through the vagina.
According to WebMD and Center for Diseases Control And Prevention Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that can infect both men and women. It can cause infections in the genitals, rectum, and throat. You can get gonorrhea by having anal, vaginal, or oral sex with someone who has gonorrhea. Gonorrhea can be cured with the right treatment.
According to the Center for Diseases Control And Prevention Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus that infect humans causing warts, tumours and cancers the genital tract and of the uterine cervix in women. You can get HPV by having oral, vaginal, or anal sex with someone that is infected. It is most common to be infected during vaginal or anal sex. HPV can be transmitted when an infected person have no signs or symptoms. There is no cure for this disease.
Chlamydia is a STD bacterial infection that can be passed on during having sex vaginal, anal, or oral. This disease can do permanent damage to our body and it can leave women unable to have children later in life. And the good news of this disease is that it can be treated and cured with antibiotics.This disease is the most commonly reported STD in the U.S. According to the Center for Diseases Control And Prevention.
According to the What you need to know about Hepatitis C this disease is a disease that damages the liver. A person with hepatitis C can affect their health and HIV treatment decisions. This disease is relate with HIV because the people affected by HIV can get this disease faster and can become very affected by a potent HIV.
According to the article Planned parenthood Syphilis is a diseases like the other STD that can be transmitted by having sex with a person that is infected with the virus. Symptoms of syphilis are chancre, painless genital sore that are more in common on the penis or in and around the vagina. Alson with this disease people can get more easily HIV infection. This disease can make damage in the skin and in other organs like, heart, blood vessels, liver, bones, and become a secondary syphilis. It’s important to use condom and controlling having sex with different partner to prevent this dangerous disease.
Another disease is Bacterial vaginosis is a possibly Sexsually Transmitted Disease, that is a vaginal infection in women of reproductive ages. This disease affect the skin, mouth and some organs of the body. Bacterial Vaginosis doesn’t have symptoms sometimes in women. You can get this disease by having sex with multiple sexual partners. According to the Center for Diseases Control And Prevention.
According to the Center for Diseases Control And Prevention Trichomoniasis is another STD and this disease can be transmitted mostly of the time to the women and usually to man. Diseases like this one don’t always cause symptoms, they can cause frequent, painful, or burning urination in men and women. Also with this disease the premature birth and babies can come with low weight, because of the disease that affect the sex organs of the woman
According to the Center for Diseases Control And PreventionAnother disease is Genital Herpes that is a very contagious disease. You can get herpes by having oral, vaginal, or anal sex with someone that has this disease. This disease can causes many damage to your body and to your sexual organs. Also if a woman is pregnant and is infected the disease can pass from the mother to the child. A Lot of people do not know that they have this disease because sometimes this disease does not have symptoms, but sometimes the disease affect the skin or ingrown hair.
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