<essentialsexinfo2@rock.com> wrote in message
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Perhaps all teenage boys should be told: Always use condoms and pull
out!
And perhaps all teenage girls should be told: Always use condoms and
birth control!

And perhaps high schools should provide birth control services to teen
girls, because without help from their parents, the girls must go to
the doctor by themselves, and somehow use whatever health insurance
their parents have to help pay for the prescription pills and their
appointment.

At the same time, high school health services could provide testing for
the five STD's which can be tested for:
HIV
Herpes (blood test)
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Syphilis

If all students are given a wallet size business card to carry with
them after testing, this could act as a prophylactic device, proving
health, and preventing infection from those diseases.

And the high school health services could also provide information on
the 7 STD's which are:
Genital Warts (HPV)
Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU)
Trichomoniasis/Vaginitis
Molluscum Contagiosum
Crabs
Scabies
Chancroid

And encourage anyone with symptoms or a positive test result to contact
their primary physician for a diagnosis and treatment.

Actually there are only a few hundred cases of Chancroid in the USA get
each year, and NGU is usually Chlamydia.... So there are 10 main
diseases, 5 testable, and 5 untestable. There are approximately 280
million people in the United States.

The 5 STD's which can be tested for are:
HIV approximately 40,000 new annual cases in USA, 900,000 people in USA
currently infected, not curable
Herpes (blood test) 500,000 new cases annually, 67 million people in
USA currently infected, not curable
Gonorrhea 800,000 people in USA, curable with treatment
Chlamydia (NGU in men) 4 million people in USA, curable with treatment
Syphilis 70,000 people in USA curable with treatment

The other 5 STD's are:
Genital Warts (HPV) 5.5 million new cases 20 million Americans
currently infected, treatable but not curable, clears in 2-5 years
Molluscum Contagiosum treatable but not curable, clears in a few
months to several years
Trichomoniasis/Vaginitis 5 million cases annually in the USA, curable
with treatment
Crabs/Pubic lice 3 million new cases annually, curable with treatment
Scabies curable with treatment

CMV/Epstein-Bar/Mononucleousis (CMV) approx 1 in 2 or 50.00% or 136
million people in USA (CMV) (Epstein-Bar) 54.4 million people in USA
carry the virus in their throats (Epstein-Bar). Most healthy people
infected with CMV do not have symptoms, but it could cause mono.
Epstein-Bar is more likely to cause mono, but it does not always. It
often causes only a mild illness, like a cold, or no illness at all.
Epstein-Barr virus permanently infects more than 90% of the people on
Earth, but it causes mononucleosis only in a small minority of them. In
developed nations, such as the United States, mononucleosis most often
develops between the ages of 15 and 25, although it can occur at any
age. After the initial infection, it rarely produces any kind of
illness, but it can be transmitted to others. Symptoms of
mononucleosis usually are most intense during the first two to four
weeks of the illness. However, mononucleosis symptoms, especially
fatigue, can sometimes last for several months.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?d=dmtHealthAZ&c=216693&p=~br,IHW|~st,24479|~r,WSIHW000|~b,*|

The definition of urethritis is inflammation of the urethra. Gonococcal
Urethritis is caused by Gonorrhea bacteria and Non-Gonococcal
Urethritis (NGU) is urethritis that is not caused by Gonorrhea bacteria
and is usually caused by Chlamydia, though NGU could be Non-Specific
Urethritis (NSU), which is urethritis that cannot be clearly identified
as Chlamydia or Gonorrhea.
http://www.cureresearch.com/n/non_specific_urethritis/intro.htm

While Gonorrhea and Chlamydia are curable; if left untreated they can
lead to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) which can cause permanent
infertility and effects 1 million women a year, if so inclined, see
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/8799/8799/29362/197425.html?d=dmtHealthAZ

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is not an STD but can be triggered by sex
which can upset the balance in the vagina. It can be cured by
antibiotics. 640,000 women in USA

Hepatitis B 200,000 to 300,000 new cases in the USA 1990. Consider
vaccination against this disease or insist your partners are tested
because it can cause irreversible liver damage leading to death and may
not be curable. However 95% of acute sufferers begin to develop their
own antibodies to the virus. Generally, the virus will disappear within
6 months of infection.

Granuloma inguinale or Donovanosis: commonly found in tropical and
subtropical areas such as Southeast India, Guyana, and New Guinea, but
it occurs on occasion in the United States, typically in the Southeast.
There are approximately 100 cases reported per year in the United
States.

Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), is highest among sexually active people
living in tropical or subtropical climates, including some areas of the
southern U.S. LGV is considered endemic in East and West Africa, India,
parts of southeast Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. Only 42
cases were reported in the US in 2000.

Most statistical info from http://www.cureresearch.com

More info at http://www.intelihealth.com

Another good website on STD's =>
http://www.epigee.org/health/stds.html

Only condoms, and prophylactic testing provide any protection against
these diseases, but 6 diseases are entirely treatable and curable,
while 2 diseases are treatable and eventually go away on their own, and
2 diseases are not curable at all, Luckily those 2 diseases, as well as
three others of the six treatable and curable diseases are testable.
Also note, that 5 of the diseases are topical or skin diseases (in the
case of warts and herpes of the mucous membrane) while 4 others are
bacterial infections, and HIV is apparently a bodily fluid infection.

Inspecting a partner's genitals may provide some protection against
Warts (but not subclinical HPV), Molluscum Contagiosum, Herpes (when
active), and possibly Syphilis. Perhaps Scabies and Crabs. Probably
not Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Trichomoniasis or HIV. If you find an STD on
your partner's genitals you may want to abstain from sex and to tell
them to get it checked by a doctor for treatment.