Learn about STDs

Transcript Condoms are incredibly affective in preventing the transmission of STIs or STDs. They’re a great barrier method, they protect you skin to skin, they protect the transmission of infectious fluid. Although no method is a hundred percent affective, this is the best protection that you can have from STIs or STDs. So I’m going …

Transcript The biggest myth about hepatitis is it that you will die if you get hepatitis, and that is just not true. Some formes of hepatitis have vaccines that help prevent them, some forms of hepatitis are treatable and some forms of hepatitis will lead to chronic disease but if treated would not cause death. …

Transcript Hepatitis C is a virus, and it causes liver disease. People get infected with Hepatitis C through contact with blood — infected blood — and most frequently, that kind of contact comes from sharing needles with somebody, or reusing a needle that was previously used by someone else, or sometimes in unclean tattoo parlors …

Transcript One of the key things to know is that many sexually transmitted infections have no symptoms. When there are symptoms present they often fall into several categories. Some of the symptoms might be discharge or discomfort upon urination. Some of the symptoms might be visible on your skin so you might notice a sore …

Transcript You can do an internet search on any one of a number of sexually transmitted infections, an image search, and you will get pictures. For the most part, the pictures that are used in textbooks, the pictures that are used to teach about sexually transmitted infections will show you the worst case scenario. So …

Transcript “Jane Bogart, M.A.: For the most part, your doctor, your medical provider, your family planning clinic, when you go for a check-up they’re not going to automatically test you for sexually transmitted diseases or infections. You have to ask for that. The best thing to do is sort of go in through, the different …

Transcript First, lets define what oral sex is. Oral sex means using your mouth on a vulva or a penis or an anus. And all of these things can transmit STIs or STDs. They can be transmitted from your mouth to someones genitals or they can be transmitted from someones genitals to your mouth. Although, …

Transcript Statistics show that 50% of all Americans will be diagnosed with an STI or STD by the time they reach adulthood. So that shows you in some way how common that STI’s and STD’s are. The most common STI or STD in America is Chlamydia and the second most common is HPV or Human …

Transcript Getting tested for sexually transmitted infections can be expensive but there are definitely resources that can provide free or, sort of pay what you can type of services. One of the major national ones is Planned Parenthood and you can go on to their website and search for a clinic in your neighborhood or …

Transcript A UTI is a urinary tract infection, and it is not a sexually transmitted disease or infection. However it can be related to sexual activity. UTI’s tend to happen more frequently in women, and that’s partly because of women’s anatomy and the way they’re built. So the vulva, the outside of the vagina, has …

Transcript Understanding Hepatitis B: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention: Hepatitis B is the most frequently sexually transmitted form of hepatitis. The good news about hepatitis B is that there is a vaccine for it and most school aged children in America have the vaccine so most people actually are vaccinated against hepatitis B. People who are …

Transcript Because there is so many different kinds of sexually transmitted infections and some of them are bacterial, and some of them are viral, and some of them are parasitic, and some of them are protozoan, there is no one test that you can have for all sexually transmitted infections. One of the key things …

Transcript STD Prevention and Protection: Top Sex Myths: The number 1 myth is that condoms are not effective. They don’t work. They may break. They don’t prevent disease, and this is just absolutely untrue. Condoms are tested rigorously. It is not easy to break a condom. You can break a condom by using the wrong …

Transcript STD stands for sexually transmitted disease. STI stands for sexually transmitted infection. Often the terms are used interchangeably and the truth is when people are talking about them most of the time they’re talking about the same thing. One of the things we know about STDs and STIs is that there is a lot …

Transcript For Chlamydia men and women may be asymptomatic which means that they might not have symptoms. It’s more likely for women not to have symptoms with Chlamydia than it is for men. However it’s possible for neither to have symptoms. So what you’re looking for with symptoms is some sort of discharge, and that …

Transcript Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection and therefore it is completely curable. One of the biggest myths around gonorrhea is you would know if you had it, but gonorrhea is often asymptomatic which means it has no symptoms. So, you might not know that you have it. Gonorrhea tends to be more symptomatic actually in …

Transcript Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection which is completely curable, and most of the time in both men and women it is asymptomatic, which means it has no symptoms. So the only really true way to know if you have gonorrhea weather you’re male or female is to get tested for it, and the way …

Transcript Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection and as such is completely curable with antibiotics. Because it’s often asymptomatic you can’t always tell that you have it. In order to know that you have it you have to be tested so will you go to a medical provider, a family planning clinic and they will diagnose …

Transcript One of the big myths about syphilis is that it doesn’t exist anymore and that it was something that happened a long time ago, and it killed people, and that I don’t have to worry about it. And the fact is, that syphilis, although rates have been lower than in the past,it’s actually on …

Transcript The first thing to know about syphilis is that is it a bacterial infection and as such is completely curable. Syphilis occurs in three stages. The first stage is primary stage and that stage is where you tend to have some symptoms and the symptoms are usually a chancre. C-H-A-N-C-R-E which is a sore …

Transcript “The first thing to know about Trichomoniasis, sometimes called Trich, is that it affects mainly women and that it’s the main cause of vaginitis which is an infection of the vaginal canal. Trichomoniasis is a one-celled organism or a protozoan. The symptoms of Trichomoniasis include a discharge, burning upon urination, tender skin, and also …

Transcript Understand Chlamydia: The Basics: Chlamydia is one of the most commonly transmitted sexual infections. It is a bacterial infection and as such, it is completely curable. The part about Chlamydia that can be disconcerting however, is that it’s usually, in women, has no symptoms, and so it’s very hard to know that you have …

Transcript Hi. I’m Jane Bogart. I’m a health educator with a specialty in sexuality education, and I have a masters degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, where I’m currently pursuing my doctorate. And I’m the author of “Sexploration: The Ultimate Guide To Feeling Truly Great In Bed”. I wrote this book, because I believe that …

Transcript Ok so lets talk a little bit about crabs, crabs are sexually transmitted. They’re actually a parasite they’re also known as pubic lice. The thing about crabs is that they’re highly contagious so if your partner has crabs it’s very likely you’ll get them. They are tiny, they look actually like tiny tiny little …

Transcript One of the things that people do often is confuse HIV with AIDS, so just for clarification HIV is a virus that people get infected with. At certain point people may or may not turn into AIDS. AIDS is defined by having a certain T-cell count in your body or possibly a certain viral …

Transcript “One of the biggest genital herpes is that in order to be infected you have to see genital herpes and that’s not true. Herpes is a virus and it actually can live in you’re nerve and body so what can happen is that you can be infected, you can never have an outbreak and …

Transcript I think the most important thing to know about genital herpes is that you can transmit it whether or not someone has symptoms-the kind of things you are looking for with genital herpes are little bumps and sometimes they look like little blisters, and they can be really uncomfortable. You can also have burning …

Transcript Understanding Genital Herpes: What Triggers Herpes? Interestingly, herpes is a virus and it’s not curable, but it is treatable. One of the things that impacts herpes or whether or not someone gets an outbreak is anything that impairs their immune system. So if you get too tired, if you get too run down, if …

Transcript Herpes is a virus, so it means it’s not curable but it’s treatable. Most of the time, people who are diagnosed with Herpes will have a recurring outbreak although that’s not necessarily true; some people have one outbreak, they have their first outbreak – it may be minor it may be more major and …

Transcript Let’s talk a little bit about non-genital herpes and whether that can cause any genital herpes. Non-general herpes as often we refer to as hollow herpes and thats caused by a virus which is HSV 1.And that virus tends to like to live on ur lips so round the memrane of the lips. That …

Transcript Understanding Herpes: Is There a Cure for Herpes? Is there a cure for Herpes? Herpes is a virus and as such, it is treatable but not curable. There are medications that are successful in suppressing Herpes outbreaks or diminishing Herpes outbreaks that do happen. The virus tends to live in your system and it …

Transcript Let’s talk about the symptoms of HIV – which is slightly misleading because HIV doesn’t have any symptoms. HIV is virus that you’re infected with that may or may not lead to AIDS. People who are infected with HIV often don’t know they are infected because there are rarely symptoms. Sometimes doctors will say …

Transcript Having a diagnosis of HIV, can be life changing, and probably life altering for most people. It can be a very daunting diagnosis for somebody, and one of the key things to consider in having an HIV positive diagnosis, is that there are a tremendous number of treatments that are available for people who …

Transcript “Center for decease control has determined certain parameters for telling when a person moves from HIV to AIDS, and those indicators includes,having which called having opportunistic infections, and there are certain infections are more like to occur in people who have AIDS, and some others are Pneumonia or CMV which is a virus which …

Transcript Lets talk about getting tested for HIV, There are basically two tests for HIV there’s a blood test and a swab test, the first way is the more traditional HIV test its called the Western blood test and that you usually have after three months of an exposure, an exposure means any time that …

Transcript Let’s talk about treatment for HIV. If you are HIV positive ts really key that you get treatment early and that you connect with a medical provider who can sort of assess for you what the best treatment is. There are many different treatments for HIV and those treatments are known as antiretroviral therapy …

Transcript “Understanding HIV: What is an HIV Rash? HIV itself, being infected with HIV, is asymptomatic, which means it has no symptoms. So, there is no rash that appears when you’re HIV infected and some people might think, well, if I look at someone or I see a rash or I see something on their …

Transcript One of the biggest myths about HPV is that it’s different from genital warts: they’re actually the same thing. HPV stands for “human papillomavirus,” so since it’s a virus, it’s actually treatable but not necessarily curable, and HPV is genital warts. There are over a hundred different strains of HPV, but only four strains …

Transcript Let’s talk about the HPV vaccine. HPV is human papilloma virus, and the good news is that there is a vaccine that helps prevent certain strains of HPV. Those strains are the ones that tend to infect the genitals and also the high-risk strains that might infect a woman’s cervix. The HPV vaccine became …

Transcript HPV stands for human papillomavirus. Human Papillomavirus are viruses that cause warts. There are over 100 strains of HPV, and a subset of those strains, about 4 to 6 of them, will cause genital warts. When people talk about HPV, particularly in terms of sexually transmitted infections or diseases, they’re really referring to genital …

Transcript “HPV is Human Papillomavirus and there are several high risk strains of Human Papillomavirus that tend to live in the rectum or on the cervix which is the opening of the uterus at the end of the vaginal canal for women. Sometimes those strains of HPV can cause abnormal cells. The way to detect …

Transcript Let’s talk about HPV symptoms, treatment and prevention. HPV is Human Papillomavirus also sometimes referred to as genital warts. Human Papillomavirus as it sounds is a virus. It is treatable not necessarily curable and it is transmitted from skin to skin contact. So if someone were to have HPV on their genitals such as …