How to Spice Up Your Sex Life: Start With The Basic Step
Looking to spice up your sex life? You would want to read articles and books on how to improve this aspect of your life. The internet and otherwise are flooded with tips and tricks in this regard. But, has anybody told you that the absence of sexually transmitted disease forms the basis of a happy and healthy sexual life? No amount of tricks and tips feel good when you or your partner...
Walk-In Clinics – For Easy and Discreet STD Testing In Minutes
Individuals who are sexually active and engage in physical relations with several partners will often be recommended to utilize adequate protection and undergo STD testing every once in a while. This advice is significant because a person affected by a sexually transmitted disease (STD) may exhibit no or minimal symptoms, making him/her unaware that they are affected and may have unknowingly passed on the infection to their partners as well. Going...
Syphilis Infection: First Sign, Treatment, and Important Facts
Syphilis is a dangerous sexually transmitted disease (STD) that can prove to be fatal when left untreated. But when treated on time, it is completely curable. The disease is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that syphilis cases in women have seen a downward trend in the recent years. But, there is an increase in cases among men who have sex with men. The...
Good News – It Is Still Possible To Get Tested For Sexually Transmitted Infections
There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic badly impacted routine STD/HIV services. Stay at home orders, shifts to telemedicine, reallocation of resources, and closure of clinical services translated into reduced STD screening. Healthcare centers in Covid-19 hotspots were encouraged to optimize their resources. The result? STD screening got • Healthcare centers in Covid-19 hotspots were encouraged to optimize their resources. The result? STD screening got impacted.• Some Planned Parenthood centers suspended...
STD Testing Needs to be Confidential but You Must Also Regulate Your Sex Life
Sexually transmitted disease (STD) infection is essentially the consequence of behavioral issues in individuals especially when it is proven beyond any doubt that the infection spreads through infected individuals. It is true that many STDs are asymptomatic in over 60% of the infected individuals, as a result of which the infected persons don’t know about it. They continue to remain sexually active and spread the disease in their partners and...
Testing for STD is Critical but so is Restrained Sexual Behavior
The danger of contacting sexually transmitted diseases (STD) is moderately high across the Washington DC-Arlington-Alexandria tri-city area with close to 40,000 cases in a year at the rate of around 600 infections for every 100,000 people. While this is not an alarmingly high number but it is surely not on the lower side either. Whether you get infected or not depends on your lifestyle to a large extent, especially your...
As STDs Continue To Haunt the Globe – Testing & Treatment Remains the Only Hope
There has never been a time in history when epidemics did not grip humanity. Infectious diseases have tormented civilizations. A few devastating ones include bubonic plague, cholera, influenza, and small pox. They were brutal killers, wiping out populations. History is replete with accounts of pandemics that clearly validate that wars, poverty, poor & unhygienic living conditions, and social inequality are drivers of transmissions. As per records available, it was during Middle Ages that...
Do Not Delay in Getting Tested For STDs – The Postponement Can Prove Disastrous
Unusual as it may seem, rates of sexually transmitted infections has taken an abrupt downturn during this corona virus breakout. This should appear good news. The Covid-19 breakout must have kept people away from bars, nightclubs, and gatherings, thus minimizing the opportunities for risky sexual behavior. But experts in sexual health have a different take. They say the pandemic has seriously disrupted testing and treatment. “This could be a harbinger of bad news”, says a...
Get A Free Chlamydia Test In Arlington To Keep A Check On Your Sexual Health
A sexy night with a stranger is just so thrilling. The not so thrilling aspect could be a sexually transmitted infection that you may catch from that person. In most cases, the surge of passion is such that the sexual partners do not ask for detailed sexual healthy history from each other. A brief history of STIs/STDs What are these? Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) or Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are those infections...
Do Not Neglect To Get Tested For HIV/STD – Your Wellness Is At Stake
As the corona virus pandemic spreads across the globe gobbling up health resources, some neglected diseases are making a comeback. It is not just that Covid-19 has diverted medical professionals’ focus from diseases like malaria, TB, and H.I.V. The lockdowns across Africa and Asia have raised insurmountable barriers for patients who must travel far to obtain treatment and drugs. The fear of Covid-19 and closing down of clinics has deterred many patients...