1. Trends in Sexual Risk Behaviors Among High School Students
Each year 3 million cases of STD in teens in U.S.
Each year 1 million U.S. teens get pregnant
HIV infection is the 6th leading cause of death among y/o
Unprotected sexual intercourse and multiple sex partners is risky for HIV, STD, and pregnancy
One out of six college girls are raped. Mostly “date rape” & they know their victims.

2. STD Stats in the US
In 2018 the US broke the all time record from 2016 of having the highest number of reported cases of STDs increase by 200,000 cases.

3. What’s Happening in Georgia
Georgia, like the rest of the Southeast, has some of the highest rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections (STDs/STIs) in the country.
According to the CDC, in 2012 Georgia was ranked:
8th Highest in the U.S. for chlamydia with a rate of
534 per 100,000
5th Highest in the U.S. for gonorrhea with a rate of
156.1 per 100,000
1st in the U.S. for primary and secondary syphilis with a rate of 9.5 per 100,000
Cobb County Public Health

4. How many STD’s are there?
1974 – 2 STD’s (gonorrhea & syphilis)
2004 – 20 different STD’s
2012 – 27 (3 new bacterial STD’s)

5. In the United States, about 85% of all sexually transmitted diseases occur in persons between the ages of

6. Ways to Get an STD Vaginal, Anal, or Oral Sex Contamminated Needles
Tattoos
Piercing

7. 2 Most Common STD Chlamydia (Bacteria - curable) Genital Warts (HPV)
(virus – non-curable)

8. Through the Years Started out as VD (venereal disease)
- Syphilis oldest VD
STD (Sexual Transmissible Disease)
STD (Sexual Transmitted Diseases)
Today: STI (Sexual Transmitted Infection)

9. Types of STDs Type: Gonorrhea Cause: Bacteria
Signs/Symptoms: often no signs/symptoms; heavy yellowish discharge
Treatment: Antibiotic

10. Facts on Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea diagnoses increased from 468,514 in 2016 to 555,608 cases in 2017.
Among men only, cases climbed from 270,033 in 2016 to 322,169 in 2017.
Men make up 58% of all Gonorrhea cases.

12. Gonorrhea Infection in Eyes of Newborn

13. Gonorrhea/Bacterial Often called the CLAP
Penis was clapped between 2 hands to push out the infection

14. Type: PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)
Causes: Bacteria
Signs/Symptoms: painful sexual intercourse;
uterine bleeding; urinary problems
Treatment: Powerful antibiotics
Type: Chlamydia
Signs/Symptoms: usually no signs/symptoms;
difficulty urinating; discharge
Treatment: Antibiotics

15. Facts on Chlamydia
1.7 million cases of chlamydia were diagnosed in 2017, with about 45% ,340 cases -- emerging among 15- to 24-year-old women and girls.
Chlamydia remains the most common STD affecting Americans in 2018.

18. Type: Genital herpes (Herpes simplex type 2)
Causes: Virus
Signs/Symptoms: usually no signs/symptoms;
painful blisters on cervix or penis
Treatment: No Cure

19. Herpes/Viral

20. Type: Syphilis
Causes: Bacteria
Signs/Symptoms: Primary – small red bumps called chancre; Secondary - rash/moist sores in genital areas; Tertiary (final stage) blindness, paralysis, or death
Treatment: Antibiotics

21. Cobb County STD Stats Most Common in Cobb: Syphilis
There were 82 reported cases of syphilis in 2015.
Based on population statistics that means 11 people per 100,000 have syphilis.
That puts the county at 60th nationwide.

22. Lesions of Secondary Syphilis - Rash

23. Lesions of Late Syphilis

24. Type: Trichomoniasis
Causes: Parasite
Signs/Symptoms: painful urination; discharge
Treatment: Antibiotics
Type: Genital Warts (Human Papilloma Virus)
Causes: Virus
Signs/Symptoms: Warts in the genital or anal area
Treatment: No Cure

25. Type: Vaginitis
Causes: Bacteria that can turn into a virus
Signs/Symptoms: painful urination; discharge
Treatment: Antibiotics depending on cause
Type: Hepatitis B
Causes: Virus
Signs/Symptoms: flu like symptoms; dark urine; yellowish skin, inflammation of optic nerve
Treatment: No Cure

28. Type: Pubic Lice
Causes: Parasite
Signs/Symptoms: Intense itching in genital area
Treatment: Medicated lotions & shampoo
Type: Scabies
Signs/Symptoms: Intense itching in genital area, under breast, armpits, between fingers

29. Penicillin
Common antibiotic used to treat many bacterial STD’s