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What is STD / Sexually Transmitted Diseases ?
What is STD : Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), commonly known as Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) or Venereal Diseases (VD) are diseases that are passed on from one person to another through sexual contact, and sometimes by genital contact - the infection can be passed on via vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex.
IV drug needles which is not unsterilized major reason of some sexually transmitted infections, from mother to baby during breastfeeding and during child birth, and blood transfusions.
Sexually transmitted infections have been everywhere for thousands of years.
Microorganisms that exists on the skin or bodily fluid layers of the male or female genital range can be transmitted, as can living beings in semen, vaginal discharges or blood amid sex.
What is mean by "venereal disease” which is not common much less used today, while "sexually transmitted diseases" is slowly giving way to "sexually transmitted infections", because the last term has a broader range of meaning - a person can pass on the infection without having a disease (they do not have to be ill to infect other people?
The genital areas are generally moist and warm environments - ideal for the proliferation of yeasts, viruses and bacteria
Examples of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) include:
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Chlamydia
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Chancroid
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Crabs(Pubic Lice)
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Genital herpes
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Genital warts
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Hepatitis B
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HIV/AIDS
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Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
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Trichomoniasis (parasitic infection)
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Molluscum Contagiosum
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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
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Scabies
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Syphilis
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Syphilis, gonorrhea
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Trichomoniasis (Trich)
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Yeast infections