Gonorrhea

In 2006, Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a short story named Father Comes Home From the Wars. Parks was the daughter of an army colonel and moved frequently as a child. This story is about the interactions between the soldiers and their families right after they comes home from the war. What confused me the most is that the whole story is very vague and not that many details of what is happening. I believe that Parks chose to lack in details to connect to more people around that world and show that…

WHAT IS MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM? Mycoplasma genitalium is a newly discovered emerging sexually transmitted bacterial infection (STI) species that does not have a nick name, it infects the mucous membranes of the urethra, cervix, throat and anus. Mycoplasma genitalium is very similar to chlamydia as it is transmitted through unprotected sex. Just like with chlamydia many people do not know that they have the infection because there are often no symptoms at all. There is evidence to suggest that…

Fertility remains higher and contraceptive levels are substantially lower than elsewhere in the developing world (Larsson). The use of family planning is to help prevent accidental pregnancy and to stop the spreading of Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV. The current future of this region, the future that will evolve without meaningful interventions, is indeed depressing but should not be accepted as a possible future. Sub-Saharan Africa needs family planning services more than almost…

A 2006 study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that among U.S. high schools, eighty-seven percent taught abstinence while only eleven percent taught safe sex (Abiona, 2012). Statistics shows teens are having more sex, so regarding that information safe sex education should be reinforced. In 2012, The Guttmacher Institute released data and information that sex education not only helps young adults delay intercourse, but also has a positive impact on other decisions when…

Human sexuality is a four-dimensional activity that involves pleasure, an expression of friendship, procreation, and/or an expression of love for one another (Thiroux & Krasemann). Some would argue that sexuality is the most intimate expression of love towards each other. During the nineteenth century, there were laws in place that prohibited many types of private sexual activities amongst consenting adults. In addition, such laws included the activities of a husband and wife and if found…

The Prentice family was referred to the community-based agency to improve their mezzo family structure in order to avoid the removal of their children. Individual members of this unit utilize their personal form of maladaptive coping to respond to situational and contextual barriers based on their predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factors. While the parents, Antonio and Terri, were never categorized as ideal parents, the death of their infant son has been the catalyst for an increase…

transmitted disease (for the most part, omitting conjunctivitis) and a latex condom is the main form of protection against the disease. One of the reasons chlamydia is not diagnosed or necessarily understood to be so, is because it is often confused with gonorrhea. It is seemingly deemed useless to try and diagnose chlamydia by symptoms alone and so screenings and tests are recommended. One important factor that attributes for all of the unreported cases of the disease is that 75% of women and…

thought, 50% of prostitutes have HIV alone. There are 42 million prostitutes globally.(Hall 6-7) In Nevada, the only state in the U.S that has legalized prostitution, it is a requirement that sex workers get tested for HIV and syphilis monthly and gonorrhea and chlamydia weekly. Brothels in Nevada also make it an obvious requirement, by placing signs all over the buildings for customers who are incapable of listening which makes most of the population, that condoms have to be worn. No funny…

Army population (Rothman et al., 2008). The rate of bacterial vaginosis among chlamydia and gonorrhea controls (female service members without infection) was 15% and 19%, respectively. Therefore, on average, the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis among female service members of the U.S. Army was 16% during the study period. A direct comparison of…

Repeat infection with gonorrhea or other common STIs, including chlamydia, may increase the risk of medical complications or sequelae such as PID, infertility and ectopic pregnancy among women, and testicular damage and infertility among men (Hillis et al., 1997; Ross, 2001; Ochsendorf, 2008; and Gimenes et al., 2014). In the US civilian population, two systematic reviews have revealed that the median percentage of repeat gonorrhea infection among men and women was 7% (95% CI…