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. 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

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

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

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

6. 2 Most Common STD Chlamydia (Bacteria - curable) Genital Warts (HPV)
(virus – non-curable)

7. 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)

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

10. Gonorrhea Infection in Eyes of Newborn

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

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

16. Herpes/Viral

17. Type: Syphilis
Causes: Bacteria
Signs/Symptoms: 1st sign – small red bumps called chancre; 2nd rash/moist sores in genital areas; 3rd (final stage) blindness, paralysis, or death
Treatment: Antibiotics

18. Lesions of Secondary Syphilis - Rash

19. Lesions of Late Syphilis

20. 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

21. 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

24. 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

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