Perceptions on Sexually Transmitted Diseases among Women
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are more dynamic than other infections prevailing in the community. It is important that such dynamic epidemiological changes in STIs are acknowledged and kept track of in a vast populous country like India. Like the developed countries, in India too, the bacterial STIs like chancroid and gonorrhea are declining, while viral STIs like HPV and herpes genitalis are on an upswing. This may partially reflect the improved facilities of treatment in the peripheral Centres that prevent the need of many patents in attending the STD clinics in the tertiary Centres. The older terminology of “venereal diseases (VDs) largely have been superseded in the past 50 years by “sexually transmitted diseases” (STDs), and more recently by “sexually transmitted infections” (STIs). To some, venereal diseases came to be viewed as a narrow term limited to gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, lymhogranulomavenereum, and granuloma inguinale, and related VD control laws. The term sexually transmitted diseases more easily incorporate the many newly discovered sexually transmitted agents and syndromes. STD includes diseases that are transmitted by sexual intercourse. Sexual transmission requires the agent to be resent in one partner, the other partner to be susceptible to infection with that agent and that the sex partners engage in sexual practices, which can transmit the pathogen. STIs differs from STD. STD conventionally includes infections resulting in clinical diseases that may involve the genitalia and other parts of the body participating in sexual interaction e.g., syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, donovanosis, nongonococcal urethritis, herpes genitals etc. STI, in addition, includes infections that may not cause clinical disease of genitals, but are transmitted by sexual interaction like all STD and hepatitis B, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HTLV-1 etc. now days the term ST is referred since it covers all the diseases that can be transmitted by sexual intercourse.
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Ms. B. S. Hemalatha And Dr. P. Neeraja
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