1. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
OBJ: I will examine the signs and symptoms of STDs. I will demonstrate an understanding of how STDs are transmitted. I will identify one option for testing and treatment.

2. BELLWORK If you contracted a STD, how would it affect your life?
Why are most teenagers not concerned about contracting STDs?
Why are teenagers especially vulnerable to contracting STDs?

3. What STDs can be cured?
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
Syphilis
Trichomoniasis

4. Chlamydia
Chlamydia is the most commonly reported STD in the United States.
Sexually active females 25 years old and younger need testing every year.
Easy to cure, Chlamydia can impact a woman’s ability to have children if left untreated.

5. Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a bacterium. Gonorrhea can grow in the reproductive tract, including the cervix, uterus, and fallopian tubes in women, and in the urethra (urine canal) in women and men. The bacterium can also grow in the mouth, throat, eyes, and anus.
Many men with gonorrhea are asymptomatic. When present, signs and symptoms of urethral infection in males include a white, yellow, or green urethral discharge that usually appears one to fourteen days after infection.
Signs in women include increased vaginal discharge, or vaginal bleeding between periods and possible infertility.

6. Syphilis Syphilis is easy to cure in its early stages.
Signs and symptoms of syphilis include a firm, round, small, and painless sore on the genitals, anus, or mouth, or a rash on the body, especially on the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet.

7. What STDs are incurable?
HIV/AIDS
Herpes
HPV/Genital Warts

8. HIV/Aids
HIV is a virus spread through body fluids that affects specific cells of the immune system, called CD4 cells, or T cells. Over time, HIV can destroy so many of these cells that the body can’t fight off infections and disease. When this happens, HIV infection leads to AIDS.

9. HERPES
You can get genital herpes even if your partner shows no signs of the infection.
If you have any symptoms (like a sore on your genitals, especially one that periodically recurs) laboratory tests can help determine if you have genital herpes.
There is no cure for herpes, but treatment is available to reduce symptoms and decrease the risk of transmission to a partner.

10. Genital Warts
Genital human papillomavirus (also called HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI).
There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females.
HPV types can also infect the mouth and throat. Most people who become infected with HPV do not know they have it.

11. Dating Mistakes Do you attach or mold yourself to the other person?
Can you “stand on your own two feet” without the other person?
Do you jeopardize important relationships with friends and family members to be with your boyfriend/girlfriend?
Do you have low expectations for your relationship? Do you “hope” that things will get better?
Do you only date “bad boys?”
Later on... Do you set time or age limits?

12. Healthy Dating Respect Allowing for individuality
Bring out the best qualities in each other
Accepting each other for who you are
Having individual high self-esteem
Expressing feeling spontaneously
Feeling secure and comfortable
Enjoying the time you send together
Taking interest in each other’s lives
Having more good times than bad
People in your life being happy about your relationship
Encouraging other friendships
Having good communication
Being supportive
Trusting each other
Encouraging independence
Finding comfort in each other
Using words to build each other up
Accepting of self and other’s faults
Use compromise to resolve conflicts

13. Unhealthy Dating Trying to control the person
Making one feel bad about himself/herself
Using words to inflict emotional pain
Being obsessive and allowing little or no privacy
Pushing, hitting, grabbing, or harming the other or objects with personal value
Having more bad times than good
Having received advice to leave the relationship
Forcing one to cut ties with other friends and family members
Afraid or frightened by the other’s actions
Condescending treatment
Constantly creating excuses or defending behavior

14. Health Department offers free testing and treatment
Health Department offers free testing and treatment. Call to make an appointment:
Doctor’s office: offers testing and treatment but person will be responsible for payment
Testing and Treatment

15. QUICK WRITE Chlamydia Genital Herpes Syphilis Gonorrhea HIV/AIDS
Trichomoniasis
Genital Warts
List one STD that can be cured.
List one STD that can not be cured.
What STD is a virus and appears as small blisters on the sex organs or mouth?
List one STD that can damage a person’s reproductive organs if gone uncured.
How can a person prevent getting a STD?