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The American Sexual Health Association (ASHA), formally known as the American Social Hygiene Association and the American Social Health Association, is an American nonprofit organization established in 1914, that cites a mission to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities, with an emphasis on sexual health, as well as a focus on preventing sexually transmitted infections ...
Bradley P. Stoner (born December 24, 1959) is an American sociocultural anthropologist and Head of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen's University. He is the former president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association and is regarded as an expert on the study of sexually transmitted infections.
The American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association named its lifetime achievement award after Parran in recognition of his work to raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases. [3] However, his role in the early part of the Tuskegee study and in the Guatemala syphilis experiments prompted the association to consider renaming the award.
The number of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the United States in 2023 was down nearly 2% from the year before, a sign the epidemic could be slowing, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
emphasize that abstinence from sexual activity, if used consistently and correctly, is the only method that is 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and the emotional trauma associated with adolescent sexual ...
A sexually transmitted ringworm caused by a rare fungus has been reported for the first time in the United States. First case of rare, sexually transmitted type of fungal infection reported in the ...
Poster for the Hygiene Congress in Hamburg, 1912 "Sex hygiene" is contrasted with "false modesty" in this frontispiece to an early 20th-century book.. In the United States, the social hygiene movement was an attempt by Progressive Era reformers in the late 19th and early 20th century to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the more inclusive term sexually transmitted infection since 1999. [9] Public health officials originally introduced the term sexually transmitted infection, which clinicians are increasingly using alongside the term sexually transmitted disease in order to distinguish it from the former.