STI's

Question 1

What is the most reported STI and why

Answer 1

Chlamydia because the symptoms are the most apparent

Question 2

What are the differences between bacterial and virus STIs?

Answer 2

Bacterial STIs can be cured, but for viral STIs, a part of the virus remains with you. This mean that virus STIs can be treated, but not cured.

Question 3

What are the most common STIs in Canada and name two risks

Answer 3

HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) & HSV (Herpes Simplex Virus)

Risks: increases likelihood of women developing cervical cancer & HPV often goes undiagnosed (no side effects)

Question 4

Why are STIs not called STDs anymore

Answer 4

Because of its negative connotation and since it gives the impression that it is lethal (infection = can be treated)

Question 5

What is an STI (sexually transmitted disease)?

Answer 5

Infection that is passed from one person to another through sexual contact

Question 6

What is the Tuskegee Experiment and what happened (Test subjects, goal, method, outcome)?

Answer 6

Experiment conducted in the United States, where Health Services practitioners promised free medical care to over 400 African American & desperately poor sharecroppers in Macon County Alabama
Some African American healthcare providers even worked with practitioners to mislead the test subjects to continue to comply

Goal: document the progression of syphilis in Black men by withholding treatment & charting progression as they suffered in pain

Outcome: eventually fell into insanity & died

Question 7

Which STI is less common than chlamydia but has increased in the last decades

Answer 7

Gonorrhea

Question 8

What kind of STI is syphilis (bacterial or virus)?

Answer 8

Bacterial STI

Question 9

Which STI has a relatively small number of cases and for which individuals has it been increasing

Answer 9

Syphilis and it has been increasing for men who have sex with men

Question 10

In what other ways can STIs be transmitted (other than through sexual contact) and give 2 examples of STIs

Answer 10

It can be transmitted through blood transfusions, sharing needles, saliva…
Examples: HIV - blood transfusion, sharing needles; Herpes - saliva

Question 11

What discovery has caused an increase in STI rates in older people?

Answer 11

Discovery of Viagra

Question 12

What are the stages of syphilis (4 stages) and what happens?

Answer 12

1. Primary stage: symptoms will develop at the place where the person came into contact with a chancre sore (2-3 week after contact)
2. Secondary stage: body rash develops (painless, reddish bumps), which end up bursting and oozing a discharge
3. Latent stage: symptoms disappear, the virus burrows into circulatory systems (get in there & lays dormant), CNS (central nervous system), and bones (can last from 1 to 40 years)
4. Tertiary stage: internal organs become infected with syphilis & start to fail; in the central nervous system, there is cell loss in the brain (causes dementia & hallucinations; large ulcers form on the skin, muscle tissue, lungs, liver & other organs; lethal once it reaches CNS & cardiovascular system

Question 13

How is syphilis usually transmitted? (7 ways)

Answer 13

• Through vaginal or anal intercourse OR oral-genital/oral-anal. (4)
• Usually transmitted when open lesions of an infected partner comes into contact with mucus membrane of the other. (1)
• Can be contracted by touching infectious chancre – sore or ulcer (1)
• Can be from mother to fetus through placenta – congenital syphilis is present at birth (1)