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STD Awareness: Bacterial Vaginosis and Chancroid
Sexually transmitted diseases can be caused by viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and even animals. Bacterial vaginosis and chancroid are both infections caused by bacteria, which means that they can be...
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STD Awareness: Trichomoniasis
Trichomonas vaginalis, normally pear-shaped, flattens itself out after attaching to vaginal cells, maximizing surface area between parasite and host. The purple organisms are bacteria. Image: Antonio...
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STD Awareness: “What Are the Symptoms of an STD?”
“I was treated for chlamydia, but my girlfriend feels fine, so she doesn’t need to get tested.” “The only time I don’t use condoms is for oral sex, and everything’s been OK ‘down there,’ so getting...
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Over 90 Percent of What Planned Parenthood Does, Part 11: Diagnosing and...
Welcome to the latest installment of “Over 90 Percent of What Planned Parenthood Does,” a series on Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog that highlights Planned Parenthood’s diverse array of...
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STD Awareness: 10 Myths About Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The Internet is brimming with contradictory claims about sexual health, and you don’t know what to believe. Your friends give you advice, but you’re not sure if it sounds right. To make things worse,...
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STD Awareness: Drug-Resistant Trichomoniasis
Trichomonas vaginalis organisms, which cause trichomoniasis. Image: Parasite Image Library, CDC You’ve probably heard of MRSA, which is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that evolved resistance to all...
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Does Douching Work?
illustration of a douching apparatus from an 1882 medical handbook As a newly minted teenager, I was helping my mother go through some of my recently deceased great-grandmother’s things. I held a...
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STD Awareness: Is Bacterial Vaginosis a Sexually Transmitted Disease?
Gardnerella vaginalis under a microscope. Image: K.K. Jefferson/Virginia Commonwealth University Bacterial vaginosis, or BV, is the most common vaginal infection among people 15 to 44 years of age....
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STD Awareness: The Surprising Sexual Transmission of Non-STDs
What is a sexually transmitted disease, or STD? If someone catches their partner’s cold during sex, is that cold an STD? According to the Office on Women’s Health, an STD is “an infection passed from...
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STD Awareness: Trichomoniasis, the Pear-Shaped, Blood-Sucking, Silent Scourge
What’s shaped like a pear, hangs with a posse of bacteria, and is a silent scourge upon millions of urogenital tracts? I hope you guessed Trichomonas vaginalis, the single-celled parasite that causes...
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