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- Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Children - Download the "Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Children" slide presentation created by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Child Abuse and Neglect Team staff.
- Unsafe Sex 'Triggers' More Disease - BBC article: complacency over safe sex is being blamed for a dramatic rise in cases of sexually transmitted diseases.
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines - Details of prevention and diagnostic measures, recommended treatments, discussions of special populations such as pregnant women and the HIV-positive, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Intended for health-care professionals.
- Waldon Research - Information about a cream which acts against the viruses which cause these sexually transmitted diseases. Includes medical studies and ordering instructions.
- HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Information about Family Health International programs in developing countries to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV.
- International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections - Achievement of international cooperation in the control of sexually transmitted diseases.
- Sexual Health for Young People YPSH - Young People's Sexual Health Online - Sexual Health issues covered for young people. Contraception, emergency contraception, prevention of Sexually transmitted Infections, sexuality, clinics, helplines, support groups, travel advice, info on lots on Sexually transmitted Infections.
- Young Womens Health: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Provides general information about who gets an STD, how its spread, symptoms, and prevention.
- Young People's Guide to Sexually Transmitted Diseases - On-line guide includes anatomy and physiology of reproductive organs, facts and pictures of common STDs and methods of prevention.
- Sexaktuellt - Information on sexual matters, such as sexual transmitted diseases and abortion. Presented in multiple languages.
Wikipedia Articles
- Microbicides for sexually transmittted diseases - A major effort is currently underway to develop topical 'microbicides for sexually transmittted diseases that might be applied to condoms or directly to the genitals to block sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), such as HIV. It is hoped that these products could be produced inexpensively and distributed freely worldwide.
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, illness from potential agents of bioterrorism, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
- Contact tracing - In epidemiology, contact tracing is the identification and diagnosis of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person. For sexually transmitted diseases, this is generally limited to sexual partners but for highly virulent diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis, a thorough contact tracing would require information regarding casual contacts.
- Howard Brown Health Center - ... Midwest’s premier lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health care organization, leading the region in addressing the comprehensive health care needs of people in the LGBT community. In 1974, a concerned group of medical students founded Howard Brown Health Center as a response to rising rates of sexually transmitted diseases among gay men.
- Condoms, needles, and negotiation - Condoms, needles, and negotiation, also known as the CNN approach, is a harm reduction approach to reducing the rate of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS through the use of safer sex and reducing the risks in intravenous drug use through the provision on clean needles.