Sexually Transmitted Diseases: say before! Be better informed to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections or make other aware, your friends, your children become teenagers...
1) A person who has a cold sore can transmit genital herpes to your partner:
Yes, but only during the infectious period of cold sores.
No, definitely not.
Typically, the cold sore is caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV 1) and HSV 2 genital herpes. However, one can give an HSV1 and HSV2 vice versa. Thus, a partner who has a cold sore can transmit the genital herpes and vice versa.
2) The morning-after pill is free:
For everyone.
Only for minors.
Emergency contraception is available at pharmacies without a prescription.
It is offered free only to minors.
3) Condoms and HPV, the virus family involved in cancer of the cervix:
The condom does not protect any of papillomavirus.
It protects some, but not enough.
The HPV virus is transmitted through semen or genital secretions, but the mucous membranes. But condoms do not prevent contact between mucous membranes, which prevents transmission of HPV very inadequate.
The only way to protect against HPV and prevent cancer of the cervix is the vaccination of young girls and to conduct regular smears.
4) In case of risk capital, the AIDS test should be done:
Immediately
Three months later.
If you think you have been exposed to a risk of infection unprotected intercourse, condom failure, injury with an object contaminated blood, sharing of injecting equipment ..., go to the emergency room of a hospital in a screening anonymous and free screening center.
Otherwise, within 15 to 90 days after exposure, can detect whether or not you are infected with the AIDS virus after a screening test.
5) Some sexually transmissible virus can cause:
Cancer.
Diabetes.
Papillomaviruses are viruses that cause cancer of the cervix.
6) The morning-after pill is effective:
In the condition should only be taken no later than the next day (within 24 hours maximum).
Even more than 24 hours after sexual relation of risk is still worth the shot to take.
Note that the effectiveness of morning after pill (or emergency contraception) is not 100%. It is about 95% when taken within 24 hours and then decreases rapidly to reach.
7) After several months of condom use with a single partner, we can stop the condom:
Only if one has confidence in your partner.
Not without each screening test for AIDS.
We may be living with HIV without knowing it. They may also underestimate their risk. This is not a matter of trusting or not. There is no doubt stop the condom (which is the only way to protect against this very serious illness), with each partner has been tested for the AIDS virus. Then, each partner shows the result for the other.
8) The HPV can also cause disease in humans, such as:
Genital warts.
Testicular cancer.
Papillomavirus are not only responsible for cancer of the cervix. In women as in men, they can cause the mucous membranes of the genital warts or crest, a kind of small warts.
9) There is a preventive treatment against AIDS?
Yes, provided it is taken within 48 hours of taking risks.
No, there is a treatment that can prevent AIDS.
There is actually a preventive treatment should be taken within 48 hours of taking risks. It reduces the risk of infection after exposure to HIV. It consists of several drugs active against HIV and should be taken for 4 weeks.
10) When is a screening test for AIDS, the result is known:
Immediately.
Within 3 to 7 days.
The test requires only a simple blood test, but the result is not immediate. Will be communicated within 3 to 7 days, during a second consultation.
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