Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Anal Sex, Pelvic Examination
5 Feb 2016
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Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. Stis affect an individual"s health not only physically but psychologically as well. Std only refers to infections that cause symptoms. Stis disproportionately affect teens and young adults. Bacterial infection that can infect both male and female genitals. Rate of chlamydia has been rising steadily since 1997. Adolescent girls have a high rate of infection 5x the national. Low risk types cause genital warts and do not cause cancer. 40+ types of hpv that are sexually transmitted. Some types have no symptoms at all. Majority of people infected with hpv are asymptomatic. Infection with hpv is widespread and it is not a reportable disease therefore, there are no national canadian data. Estimates: 20-33% of women have hpv; 11-25% have the high risk type. Highest rate of hpv was among women under 25. There are no good estimates of the prevalence of hpv in men, it.
