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1 in every 4 sexually active gay and bisexual men must take the medicines regularly to help in preventing HIV, the virus that brings AIDS and that is in accordance to the newest report from the CDC. According to the CDC, the drug treatment called for the pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP marked just under the brand name Truvada. It can also help in the reduction of the risk of having sexually acquired HIV by more than 90%. It may also help in the reduction of the risk of having HIV infection by among those who injected the drugs by more than 70%. The CDC has just said that 1 in every 200 sexually active heterosexual adults must also get PrEP to secure them if their partner is HIV positive, of whether they have different partners who are at a higher risk of being infected.
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Nevada is suffering from the highest rate of syphilis in the West part of the US after an outbreak occurred in Vegas. The Health officers say that it is a part of the national confound in instances linked to the increased testing, the rise in the unknown sex linked to social media and less responsible sexual activities. Social media has something to do with syphilis in the gay community and it has alerted the health officers to take some educational awareness and to reach out the people through their websites and applications. Some of the cases, making profiles or buying advertisements work.
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Are you familiar with the newest type of condom that has the capacity to detect STDs? It may be an embarrassing device while you are in the bedroom with your partner, but do you know that it is useful in fighting STDs? 3 teens in UK have invented this idea. They came up with the new condom those changes in color if an STD is detected. It has the capacity to detect chlamydia and syphilis, which are both growing in various parts of the globe. They named the condom S.T.EYE. It has won several awards for being an innovative device for STD detection. The 3 teens who came up with this idea are namdely Ali 14 years old, Nawaz 13 years old and Chirag 14 years old. All of them are students at the Isaac Newton Academy in Essex in England. Because they have won the 1st price they will go to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Andrew personally this year. They got the prize money of around $1,500.
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Around 3B people have herpes nowadays. This data came from the WHO. This is around 2/3 of the people below 50 years of age have herpes. More than ½B have sexually transmitted herpes, the genital herpes simplex virus type 1 or HSV-1 or herpes simplex virus type 2 of HSV-2 STD. In the HSV-1, it commonly spreads with an oral contact and the signs may be cold sores, however it may spread to the genitals through an oral sex. Kids who live in an unclean place may also get this type of herpes. Good thing better hygiene is now being promoted in various nations, fewer records are recorded with the HSV-1, however more people in some rich nations are now suffering from the HSV-1 condition by means of oral sex. Globally, some of the 140M people ages 15-49 are infected with this condition as well.
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The rates of the HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are now rising in Rhode Island. There is a trend in the department of health in this state that attributes to better testing and high rates of high probable odds for sexual behavior. The officials in Rhode Island said that the cases of gonorrhea went up by 30% and there are newly identified HIV cases growing by around 33%. The infectious syphilis cases on the other hand are rising by around 79% and this is quite alarming in this state.
