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A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Sexually transmitted infections: Nobody wants them, but they're more common than you think, and transmissions are increasing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said syphilis cases ...
Risky sexual behavior is the description of the activity that will increase the probability that a person engaging in sexual activity with another person infected with a sexually transmitted infection will be infected, [1] [2] [3] become unintentionally pregnant, or make a partner pregnant. It can mean two similar things: the behavior itself ...
The term safer sex in Canada and the United States has gained greater use by health workers, reflecting that risk of transmission of sexually transmitted infections in various sexual activities is a continuum. The term safe sex is still in common use in the United Kingdom, [12] Australia and New Zealand.
It is discovered that sexually active women younger than 25 and men who have sex with men are at increased risk of getting gonorrhea. [33] Other risk factors include: Having a new sex partner; Having a sex partner who has other partners; Having more than one sex partner; Having had gonorrhea or another sexually transmitted infection [34]