Week 1 - What is Sexual Health?

Question 1

What are venereal diseases?

Answer 1

An older term used to describe STIs

Question 2

What are enthetic diseases?

Answer 2

A term used since the 19th century to indicate disease inoculated or implanted into the body from external sources, particularly infections, e.g. syphilis

Question 3

What are sexually transmitted diseases?

Answer 3

Diseases that have been transmitted through sexual contact

Question 4

What are sexually transmitted infections?

Answer 4

Infections that can be transmitted through sexual contact or through other means, which may or may not progress to a disease, but which are thereafter sexually transmittable.

Question 5

What are blood-borne viruses?

Answer 5

A group of diseases caused by blood-borne pathogens that are transmitted via direct blood-to-blood contact, e.g. HIV/AIDS, Hep B, and Hep c

Question 6

What are classical STIs? Give 3 examples

Answer 6

STIs that were identified before the 20th century. Include gonorrhoea, syphilis and donovanosis

Question 7

What are modern STIs? Give three examples

Answer 7

STIs that have arisen/been identified in recent times. Include Hepatitis A, Chlamydia and HIV/AIDS

Question 8

What are the priorities for the WHO regarding sexual health?

Answer 8

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health— primarily focusing on teenage pregnancy and HIV transmission
HIV related deaths
HIV, viral hepatitis, and STI prevention and transmission

Question 9

What does HEADSS stand for?

Answer 9

Home
Education, employment, eating, and exercise
Activities and peer relationships
Drug use, cigarettes, and alcohol
Sexuality
Suicide, depression, and mood