STI Worksheet Using the STI PowerPoint Slides, fill in the

STI Worksheet Using the STI PowerPoint Slides, fill in the following information: Name: __________________ Symptoms How do you get it? How do you get tested? Is it treatable? How? Possible long- term effects Chlamydia Gonorrhea Trichomoniasis LGV Public Lice/Scabies Syphilis HPV Herpes Hepatitis B HIV Using the information from both websites, answer the following questions. 1. 2. 3. What is an STI and why should you care? What is the difference between an STD and an STI? 4. Circle the infections you cannot cure but you can treat: 5. List some of the consequences of not getting treated: Circle which STI’s you can cure: Chlamydia Gonorrhea Trichomoniasis LGV Public Lice/Scabies Syphilis HPV Herpes Hepatitis B HIV Chlamydia Gonorrhea Trichomoniasis LGV Public Lice/Scabies Syphilis HPV Herpes Hepatitis B HIV 6. How can you avoid getting an STI? 7. Read the following paragraph and then answer the questions below. One of the factors that makes STIs so common is that most people with an STI don’t even know that they are sick. It is not uncommon for someone to be infected but have no STI symptoms – in other words to be asymptomatic. Therefore, people can be infected with an STI for many years without knowing. During that time, if they’re not careful, they can pass their disease on to some or all of their sex partners. That’s why some scientists call STIs “the hidden epidemic.” For example, Chlamydia is the most common treatable STI, but three-quarters of all women, and half of all men, with chlamydia have no STI symptoms. It’s very easy to have an STI and not know about it. That’s why safer sex should be the rule rather than the exception. Although an STI may not be making you feel sick right now, it doesn’t mean that it is not having an effect on your, or your sexual partner’s, health. Left untreated, some STIs can cause long-term damage such as infertility, organ damage, or even death. The only way to tell if you or your sexual partner has an STI is to be tested. Just because you don’t have symptoms doesn’t mean you can’t give your partner an STI. Some people who know they are infected with an incurable STI think that they can’t spread the disease when they don’t have symptoms. However, this isn’t true. Herpes, for example, is transmissible even when a person isn’t having an outbreak. So are HPV, the virus that causes genital warts and cervical cancer, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Since these diseases can’t be cured it is extremely important for people who have them to take precautions with all their sexual partners. a) What does asymptomatic mean? b) Can someone who feels ok and has no symptoms have an STI? c) Can you get an STI from someone who looks and feels healthy? d) What is the only way to tell if you or your sexual partner has an STI?

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