Essays on Sexually Transmitted Diseases

One of the major public health problems and the societal concerns these days is the maltreatment of children which impacts millions of children all over the world. There are a variety of long and short-term health consequences of child abuse and neglect which leaves a long-lasting impact on the mental and social growth and development of the children. Child abuse does not just mean broken bones or bruises, it impacts the safety, physical, social, mental, emotional and educational needs of the children. Child abuse and neglect as defined by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 2010, ...

Various types of sexually transmitted diseases

The most common types of sexually transmitted diseases include HIV & AIDS, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), bacterial vaginosis and viral hepatitis. Apparently, while syphilis and gonorrhea have previously been mentioned as prevalent or common cases of STDs, there prevalence rates have significantly fallen over the years. For the currently common cases, they tend to possess common symptoms with a characteristic pattern on a weakened immune system (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 67). Such include fever, abdominal pains, and abnormal odor of the vagina, anal soreness, bleeding and itching, frequent micturation, painful micturation, unusual discharge from the vagina or the penis, ...

Where there is sex trafficking, there is sex exploitation since it is often the vulnerable, the desperate, and the despondent who end up being lured into the prostitution trade. Prostitution is not beneficial to society as it evokes such problems as degradation of women’s rights, poor public health, and social disadvantages. Deshpande claims that, “Sex trafficking victims acquire adverse physical and psychological health conditions that require both medical and legal attention” (22). Basically, the author believes that young women and children face psychological trauma once they are free. They cannot make a fresh start because they have a ...

Darwin’s Nightmare is a movie about several inhabitants’ version of survival and trying to become successful. The movie takes place in Tanzania. Tanzania is in the eastern part of Africa that is located between Kenya and Mozambique. Presently the population in Tanzania is 51,045,882. In the film, the nickname for Tanzania was “fish country. This is an appropriate name because the region where Tanzania is located has the second largest lake in the world (Agency, 2016). The country is also known for fishing, and agriculture. One of the main sources of income is the fish that ...

Introduction

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease that has adverse effects on the health of the patient if not diagnosed and treated at early stages of development. Human bodies are designed to develop resistance to pathogens that cause such infections despite the availability of medicinal cure for the infection. This paper seeks to answer various questions about the infection by first describing the disease and how it is contracted. The symptoms and problems associated with the disease are also discussed while providing a detailed explanation for the high recurrence rate of the disease among the African American urban women. Besides, ...

Abstract

In the novel ‘Black Hole,’ teenagers who engage in sexual behavior contract a decision that leads to genetic mutations which are hard to conceal. The disease is a replica of the Aids Pandemic and the struggles which teenagers have to endure during their adolescent years. The importance of the study is to identify how teenagers in the book the black Hole relate to the youth in the current society. Teenagers experience hormonal imbalances which cause them to lose control and are mostly controlled by their sex drives. Sexual attractions are common during this developmental stage of life, and most ...

Hengel, Jamil, Mein, Maher, Kaldo, & Guy (2013), systematically reviewed several strategies and their respective outcomes for gonorrhea and Chlamydia screening. Their study was necessitated by the fact that the prevalence of Chlamydia and gonorrhea was high among populations who lack regular access to health care centers where they can be tested for different sexual diseases (STIs). The main goal of their study was to establish the effectiveness and outcomes of various outreach gonorrhea and Chlamydia screening strategies. This is because testing and treating STIs is the most effective approach to preventing adverse impacts of STIs on infected people. Untreated ...

Improving Health Inequities

Health inequities refer to the systematic differences in the status of a given population. The youth population of the age between 6 and 12 present in the Bronx, District 4, faces various health inequities. Majority of the teens of the mentioned age tend to engage in premature sex, which leads them to encounter health inequalities relating to pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and obtaining sexually transmitted infections. Other inequalities include the huge variation in mortality rates between the youths and the elderly individuals in the Bronx. Reduced life expectancy among the youths of the mentioned age is also a pressing health inequality. ...

Sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/Aids, STDs and others have been a big challenge in our communities. Many of the community have got a big number of people suffering such infections. Admittedly, the community and the government end up spending much on HIV/Aids, STDs and optimistic infection treatments (Holden, n.d). Such funds could be placed in better use such as in the agriculture projects, transports and so on. Additionally, many victims of HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases are the energetic youths who gets weak to even help in any project. In short, the sexually transmitted diseases reduces the ...

In the recent years, the incidence of pregnancies at adolescents has been on the rise at alarming rates in the United States. Teenage pregnancies have caused adverse effects to the young mothers, the infants born to the young mother’s ant the whole society (Kappeler & Shaw, 2015, p. 196). It is estimated that out of 1000 adolescent girls, 96 of them who are aged between fifteen to nineteen years become pregnant every year. About 85% of these teen pregnancies are unplanned, and approximately 40% of them end up procuring abortion as because they do not have the support and ...

References

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Many adolescents are at a higher risk of being infected with sexually transmitted infections (STDs) such as Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. This is due to cultural, behavioral and biological factors. Many of them have multiple partners who engage in sexual intercourse without using condoms (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2015). Research shows that adolescents aged between 15 and 24 years record highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Moreover, more than 25% of all the people infected with HIV in U.S contracted the virus at the teenage and adolescent years (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2015). This ...

Currently, in all American states, sexually active teens can access contraceptives even if they do not talk about sex and pregnancy with their parents and even without the consent of the parents. Contraceptives are the devices or drugs that are used to prevent a person from getting a pregnancy that is not planned for. Some contraceptives like condoms even avoid the transmission of STDs and HIV. However, some federal and state lawmakers wish to take away the ability by teenagers to protect themselves and other involved parties like their parents, partners and babies (Eichner & Maxine 87). They would like ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (HHS.gov., 2015). Referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is a health reform effort that has generated a great deal of controversy due to its complexity and wide range of impact. The ACA is mainly concerned with mandating that every person in the country have some form of health insurance. Almost immediately after the legislation was passed, marketplaces for health insurance appeared and businesses hurried to find coverage for employees. There were some very negative changes that resulted such ...