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I have genital herpes. Those people you see in the Valtrex commercials, running down a beach with five beautiful women chasing after them? Totally me.
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Virginity and STDsScarleteen users share their experiences with STD testing.
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HPV VaccineASHA is recognized by the public, patients, providers, and policy makers for developing and delivering accurate, medically reliable information about STIs.
Do you currently have or carry a sexually transmitted infection? You aren't a leper, you're just someone with an illness like any other. Find others dealing with what you are here, and work out your issues without shame or stigma.
Support thread for STI sufferersA medical online manual that introduces and describes various sexually transmitted infections.
The Body is the comprehensive HIV resource with topics on HIV testing, prevention, myths, blood donation, and how HIV works and is treated. There are galleries, forums and chats for discussions of topics and to get questions answered.
MTV gets on the sexual health train by providing youth with information about documentaries, HIV awareness groups, healthy sexual choices, and pop quizzes on sexual health knowledge. Each section is full of links, information, themes for each month, and places for youth to take action and speak up.
Supported by the American Social Health Association, iwannaknow.org is a search function that allows youth to easily search topics of interest to them. Primarily devoted to preventing the transmission of STIs, there are also topics on puberty, love and relationships, and reproductive information.
A vaccine -- Gardasil -- is available to help prevent the spread of some types of HPV. The Centers for Disease Control report that clinical trials in over 11,000 young women have shown the vaccine to be 100% effective for young women in preventing cervical precancers caused by the targeted HPV types, and nearly 100% effective in preventing vulvar and vaginal precancers and genital warts understood to be caused by the targeted HPV types.
Trichomoniasis is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, mainly affecting 16-to-35-year old females.