Diseases STDs

Of course everyone has heard by now the appalling discovery unearthed by Wellesley College professor, Susan Reverby on how the US Public Health Service (a medical branch of the US government) conducted clearly unethical and dangerous syphilis experiments in Guatemala in the mid-40s.

And all of Washington from President Obama to Secretaries Clinton and Sebelius to NIH director, Francis Collins has come out condemning the experiments and apologized to the country of Guatemala.

So what did Professor Reverby find? From 1946 to 1948, a Public Health Service (PHS) physician, Dr. John C. Cutler, ran a syphilis inoculation project on Guatemalan soldiers and prisoners to determine the prophylactic capabilities of penicillin against this infamous spirochete. Continue reading ‘Guatemalan Syphilis Experiment: In the Name of Public Health?’ »

People often shy away while talking about sexual health. But World Health Organization considers sexual health important criteria for maintaining human health. It includes everything, right from having enjoyable sex to testing for sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) and their treatment and prevention.

According to Michael McGee, MEd, a certified sexual health educator and adjunct professor at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J., “Sexual health is an essential and beneficial dimension of being human. McGee is an experienced teacher and advocate on sexual related health, and counsels’ people on various sex health issues. Continue reading ‘Take Care of Your Sexual Health’ »

Cash rewards can be an effective way out in preventing sexual transmitted infections (STI) in rural Africa, stated by researchers of University of California, Berkeley, the Development Research Group at the World Bank and the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania.

It was found that people who were paid $60 and told to stay free of STIs for one year had 25 percent lower pervasiveness of the sexual infections compared to those who were not given money. Continue reading ‘Giving Cash Prevents STI’ »

Cold sore outbreaks are no laughing matter. Often, it seems as though luck is not on your side and cold sores seem to come up at the most inopportune times. Whether it’s an important presentation, a first date or your wedding day, you can bet your bottom Dollar that you will feel that all too familiar tingle in the days leading up to the event.

It’s interesting how different people handle their cold sores differently. For some sufferers, it’s the end of the world and reason enough to hide from others in shame and humiliation until the sores clear. Yet for others, a an outbreak is no more serious than a bad pimple and has no impact on their lives at all. If you have been feeling as though your herpes simplex diagnosis is the end of the world, read on for some great positive aspects of carrying the virus. Continue reading ‘Putting a Positive Spin on Cold Sore Outbreaks’ »

Couples or those men and women who are sexually active, and especially those who have multiple sex partners are at a higher risk of getting infected with the sexually transmitted infections. Whenever you think of a sexually transmitted infection, the first name that comes to your mind is HIV, which is not the only and dangerous infection. There are many more STIs with which you can get infected with if you are not careful. Some harmful and dangerous infections are genital herpes, bacterial Vaginosis, ureaplasma, gonorrhoea, mycoplasma genitalium and trichomonas vaginalis.

Genital herpes is an infection that is caused by the herpes simplex virus, and is spread through close physical or sexual contact. This infection is common among both men and women between the age of 20 and 24 and if untreated can also spread to other parts of your body; and can also increase the risk for you contracting the HIV virus. The major symptoms of the herpes virus include painful red blisters around your genitals, thighs and inside or around your anus, discomfort, redness, itching or tingling sensation around the infected area, painful or burning sensation while urinating, and an unusual discharge from the tube that passes the urine. The herpes virus can be passed on to your partner through unprotected vaginal or anal sex, by sharing sex toys, genital contact with an infected person, oral sex and to the genitals even through your fingers. Continue reading ‘Learn More on STIs and Protect Your Sexual Health’ »

To prevent herpes outbreaks, you must learn effective strategies to keep herpes symptoms at bay. Being infected with does NOT mean you should bury yourself in solitude and melancholy, believing you are never again going to be able to live a normal life. It means you need to take extra good care of yourself and your health and pay attention to herpes early signs.

Herpes can be present in an active (when signs and symptoms are present), or latent (no signs and symptoms) phase. You have every chance of living a normal life with herpes, if you can keep the STD in its latent phase all the time or as long as possible. All you have to focus on is learning how to stop your herpes symptoms from coming back. The best way of doing that is by learning which remedies works for you to prevent herpes from coming back. Continue reading ‘Prevent Herpes Outbreaks: Get My Top Four Herpes Treatments and Remedies to Keep Them at Bay’ »

Some things like to lurk. They like to just sit there all comfortably and then-without any warning at all-they spring up and bite you on the butt! Things that do this quite often are hairy spiders, scorpions, some types of snakes, rabid monkeys, perhaps-and definitely chlamydia.

One of twenty-five different diseases that qualify as an STD, chlamydia is also a lurker. It is an STD that can sit and wait for years before it bites you (really takes a chunk out of you, especially if you are a woman who would like to have a child). If you are sexually active, testing for such an STD is a great first step in taking control of your overall health.

Annual testing is highly recommended by certified STD clinics-and it’s not because they want repeat business-but it is precisely because of the lurking factor that chlamydia possesses. In the United States of America Chlamydia infects over three million people a year; a hefty sum, by any standard. Up to seventy five percent of chlamydia cases in women, and up to twenty five percent of cases in men, are completely symptomless. That’s seventy five percent of all women infected showing no signs of their status at all. If this isn’t an awesome case for testing, nothing is. Continue reading ‘Annual Chlamydia Testing The Key To Great Sexual Health’ »