7. GONORRHOEA: It’s an STD that can affect both men and women. It can cause infections in the genital, rectum and throat. It’s a very common infection especially among young people. Infection can spread from mother to baby, It can cause serious health problems if left untreated to the baby.
Most people don’t have symptoms, symptoms may appear after several week of having sex with an infected person. Burning sensation while urinating, abnormal discharge, bleeding in between period in women are some symptoms.
It can be cured, though it’s becoming harder to treat some strand of gonorrhoea as drug resistant stains of gonorrhoea is increasing. Rarely, untreated gonorrhoea can also spread to your blood or joint and this can be life threatening.
6. CHLAMYDIA: It’s a common STD that affects both men and women. It can cause serious or permanent damage to a woman’s reproductive system. It can cause a potentially ectopic pregnancy. You can get chlamydia by having vaginal, anal and MouthAction with an infected person. It can be passed from mother to baby during delivery and it can cause eye infection or pneumonia in your new born baby.
Most people don’t have symptoms, symptoms may appear several week after sex with infected person. Burning sensation while urinating, an abnormal discharge, pain or swelling in the testicles in men are common symptoms.
It can be cured but you can still get infected after treatment if you have sex with an infected person.
5. SYPHILIS: Syphilis is an STD that can cause serious complications if left untreated but it’s simple to cure with the right treatment. You can get syphilis by direct
contact with a syphilis sore during vagina, anal or oral intercourse. Sores can be found in the vagina, penis, anus, in the rectum, lips or mouth. There are different stages of syphilis: The primary, the secondary, latent and late stage.
PRIMARY STAGE: During the first stage, you can notice a single sore, but there might be multiple sores. The sore is the location where the syphilis entered your body. the sore is usually firm, round, painless. Because of the painless sore it can easily go unnoticed. The sore last for weeks regardless of weather you take treatment or not. But it is advisable to go for treatment to prevent it from going to the secondary stage.
SECONDARY STAGE: During the secondary stage, you may have skin rashes, or sores in your vaginal or mouth. This stage usually starts with a rash that that can show up when your primary sore is healing or several weeks after the sores has heal. They can look
like rough, red, reddish brown spots on the palm of your hand or the bottom of your feet.
LATENT OR LATE STAGE: This stage begins when all the symptoms you had earlier disappear. If you don’t receive treatment the syphilis will remain in your body without any sign or symptom. Most people won't develop the late stage. However, when it does happen
it’s very serious and would occur 10-30 years. Symptom of the late stage of syphilis include difficulty in coordinating muscle movement, paralysis, numbness, blindness and dementia. The disease damages your internal organ and can result in death.
Syphilis can be cured with the right antibiotics from health care provider. However, treatment will not undo any damage that the infection has already.
4. HERPES (HSV): This is an STD that is caused by two viruses: the herpes simplex 1 and the herpes simplex 2. Herpes is very common you can get herpes by having vaginal, anal or MouthAction with someone who
has the disease. Fluids found in a herpes sore carry the virus and contact with those fluid can cause infection. You may also have herpes from infected partner that doesn’t have any visible sore or is even aware he/she has herpes because e herpes can be transmitted through skin contact. Herpes can be transmitted from mother to babying cause a potentially deadly infection (neonatal herpes).
Most people who have herpes have no or mild symptom or may mistake them for skin condition like pimple or ingrown hair. It can appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals rectum or mouth. The blisters breaks and leaves painful sores that may last for weeks to heal. The symptoms are sometimes called having an outbreak.
There’s no cure for herpes. However there are drugs that can prevent or shorten outbreaks. One of those medicine can be taken daily making it less likely that you’ll infect you partner.
3. HEPATITIS: Hepatitis is a virus and it has different type.
HEPATITIS A: Transmission of Hepatitis A virus can occur from sexual activities and is not limited to fecal-oral contact. Measure typically used to prevent the transmission of other STDs do not prevent Hepatitis A transmission. Vaccination is the most effective means of preventing Hepatitis A transmission among person at risk of infection.
HEPATITIS B: It occurs among unvaccinated adults. Having multiple sexual partner and partners of people with chronic Hepatitis B infection. It can be transmitted through sexual activities. Sexual contact is the most common way it spread.
HEPATITIS C : Although not common Hepatitis C can be transmitted through sexual activities. Having an STD or HIV, sex with multiple partner, rough sex appears to increase risk of hepatitis.
2. HPV: Human papilomavirus is one virus you don’t want to mess with. Most HPV infections cause no symptoms and resolve spontaneously. HPV is so common nearly all sexually active people gets it at one point in their lives. There are different types some
might go away with time, some types can cause health problems like warts and cancer, some HPV virus will stick to you like a marriage vow till death do you part.
You can get HPV by having vaginal, oral and anal sex with an infected person. HPV can be contracted even when an infected person shows no sign or symptom. Anyone who is sexually active can have HPV even if you have sex with only one person. You can develop
symptom years after you have sex with someone infected making it difficult to know when you first became infected and who infected you.
In most cases HPV goes on its own but, but you are going to have serious health problems like warts, cancers when it comes to stay. Genital warts usually appears as bumps in the genital area, they are of different sizes. Health care provided can diagnose
warts buy looking at it. HPV can also cause cancer like cervical cancer, cancer of penis, vulva, vagina, anus, in the back of the throat, in the base of the tongue and the tongue. Cancer can take ten years or even decades
to develop after a person gets HPV. The type of HPV that causes cancer is different from the one that causes warts. People with weak immune system are more like to develop health issues from HPV.
To avoid HPV and the problem it; get vaccinated, abstain from sex, be monogamous (but this is not hundred percent because your partner might be infected before you met)
1. HIV/AIDS: The human immunodeficiency virus top our list. It weaken the persons immune system by destroying the cells that fight diseases and infections. There is no effective cure for HIV but with proper medical care it can be controlled. If left untreated it
can lead to the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The human body can’t get rid of HIV completely so it sticks to you for life. HIV destroys the immune system specifically the CD4 cell which helps to fight infections making the person susceptible to infection and infection related
cancer.
Aids is the stage of infection that occurs when the immune system is badly damaged and you become vulnerable to opportunist infection. Without treatment, people who are diagnose with AIDS typically survive 3 years.