Who has a friend or knows of someone that has unprotected sex? Have any of you ever had unprotected sex? Well today I will be persuading you to always have safe sex‚ because you could get HIV/AID‚ Chlamydia or Pregnant. The biggest risk that a person takes when they choose to have unprotected sex is contracting the HIV/ AID virus. HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. A member of a group of viruses called retroviruses‚ HIV infects human cells and uses the energy and nutrients
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Essay on Chlamydia 1000 words Introduction In this essay I am going to discuss health promotion which is the process of enabling people to exert control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health. As a concept and set of practical strategies it remains an essential guide in addressing major health challenges faced by developing and developed nations‚ including communicable and non-communicable diseases and issues related to human development and health. The topic I have
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ask about anything that is related to chlamydia. To prevent the risk of chlamydia become more common‚ students could be educated whilst in school on the signs and symptoms of chlamydia‚ and also be informed on how it is caused‚ this should be done so that the number of cases of chlamydia can be reduced within young people. To control the risk of chlamydia‚ the school/college nurse should provide condoms‚ this would control the risk of people catching chlamydia off people who may already have it. These
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What Are STDs? STDs are sexually transmitted diseases. This means they are most often -- but not exclusively -- spread by sexual intercourse. HIV‚ chlamydia‚ genital herpes‚ genital warts‚ gonorrhea‚ some forms of hepatitis‚ syphilis‚ and trichomoniasis are STDs. STDs used to be called venereal diseases or VD. They are among the most common contagious diseases. More than 65 million Americans have an incurable STD. Each year‚ 15.3 million new cases are reported; half of these infections are lifelong
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(HEALTH‚ 2005). Communicable disease includes sexually transmitted diseases (STD) like Chlamydia. Chlamydia is a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis and is a commonly reported STD (Services‚ 2012). This disease may not have any symptoms to indicate a problem within the person. Chlamydia affects more woman than men and is reported to be common in men and women between the ages of 15 – 24 (Division‚ 2012). Chlamydia can be treated with the use of antibiotics‚ without antibiotics the disease can cause
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Teens and young adults are most often affected. Chlamydia is considered a silent condition because most of those infected experience no symptoms‚ according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Symptoms that do appear usually occur within one to three weeks of the infection. In woman the
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Serological Testing: Activity 1: Using Direct Fluorescent Antibody Technique to Test for Chlamydia Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. Which of the following has an epitope? You correctly answered: b. an antigen 2. Chlamydia trachomatis is You correctly answered: c. a bacterium that reproduces inside its host cell. 3. The infectious form of Chlamydia that is spread from person to person is the You correctly answered: d. elementary body
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Health Dept of the local Primary Care Trusts (City and County). We are the Leicester‚ Leicestershire and Rutland Chlamydia Screening Programme funded by two separate PCTs. These hold the funding for all manner of public health services‚ depending on evidence of need and national direction. The purpose of the NCSP is to reduce case of Chlamydia and transfer cases of Chlamydia. For Chlamydia‚ each year the national target and local budget are looked at to determine the level of service that can/will
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burning.Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common vaginal infection in women of childbearing age. In the United States‚ BV is common in pregnant women. Chlamydia Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacterium‚ Chlamydia trachomatis‚ which can damage a woman’s reproductive organs. Even though symptoms of chlamydia are usually mild or absent‚ serious complications that cause irreversible damage‚ including
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- Evaluate the effectiveness of promoting and protecting public health . Lung Cancer [pic] One of the campaigns is lung cancer campaign ‘got a cough‚ get a check!’ it shows the symptoms of lung cancer‚ saying that if you are coughing a lot or if you cough up blood‚ neck pain and shortness of breath to see your doctor. This will mean that people can be checked earlier than leaving it for it to just get worse. Lung cancer is the most common cause of death ‘’it is known that smokers and ex-smokers
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