All About STDs From Someone With An STD
This guest post was written by Katie Brind’Amour, MS, a Certified Health Education Specialist, a freelance health and wellness writer, and Social Media Manager for Women’s Healthcare Topics. How to Spot Early HIV Symptoms The earliest HIV symptoms — if you experience any at all — can be disguised as other common illnesses, making a new HIV infection difficult [...]
About HIV What is HIV and how is it spread? HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a long-term infection that damages the body’s immune system or it’s ability to fight off diseases. It spreads through blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. You can get or give the infection by: Having vaginal, anal, or oral sex [...]
World AIDS Day is December 1st This year, The STD Project had the privilege of participating in multiple events to both commemorate those who lost their lives to AIDS as well as celebrate the leaps and bounds achieved in the fight to end HIV/AIDS. While I was delighted to take part in those events, I was [...]
Mourning the Loss of a Beautiful Soul The STD Project lost its first friend to HIV/AIDS this week, Mirvan Ereon. I have been mourning since; I was not at all prepared for how this would affect me and quite honestly, I felt a little silly being so taken aback as I had only just recently [...]
1 out of 3 People with HIV have Hep C When a person is infected with two or more different viruses, it is called a coinfection. Infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV or Hep C for short) is the most common coinfection in people with HIV. Complications of HIV Hep C coinfection has become [...]
When looking for pictures of STDs on google or any other search engine, you’re bound to come across incredibly graphic, disgusting, and down right scary pictures of STDs. While these pictures are sometimes real depictions of specific STDs, they are often the very worst case scenarios and can be meant to scare people into abstinence. [...]
There are 3 different kinds of STDs: bacterial, viral, and parasitic. Like bacterial STDs, viral STDs/STIs often give no warning signs or symptoms. This means you can get infected and infect a sexual partner without knowing it and serious complications which can cause irreversible damage can progress silently before you ever recognize a problem. Viral [...]
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