STDs & STIs Stories
- New data from a CDC report revealed how the number of babies born with syphilis has more than doubled since 2013, nearing close to 1,000 cases in 2017.
- Given the latest CDC data regarding diagnoses of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in the United States, experts shed light on numerous factors to explain the rapid rise in numbers.
- The CDC has issued a reminder that condoms are not made to be used more than once as washing or reusing the product can reduce its effectiveness.
- While vaginal, anal, and oral sex still carry the highest risk of spreading STDs and STIs, here are four conditions that can be transmitted via kissing.
- According to a global health report published in 2017 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Trump administration was seeking to cut funding related to fighting AIDS and HIV by 17 percent.
- After experts warned drugs against gonorrhea were becoming ineffective, the first case of absolute resistance to first-line therapy has been reported in England.
- You don’t need to have sex to catch HPV, according to these male virgins with the STD.
- Researchers have found that some transgender people get three times as many HIV tests than others.
- Dermatologists reveal the pros and cons of bikini wax and laser hair removal in the summer.
- New research backs theory that two doses of the HPV vaccine are just as effective as three in preventing genital warts.
- Although it's been 45 years since the end of the Tuskegee Syphillis Study, it's important not to forget what happened to these men, as well as other men who suffered at the hands of American scientists.
- A new study has finally figured out how the gonorrhea bacteria overcomes the female body's protections against invaders.