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STI Worksheet
Using the STI PowerPoint Slides, fill in the following information:
Symptoms
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
How do you
get it?
How do you get
tested?
Is it treatable?
How?
Possible longterm effects
Trichomoniasis
LGV
Public Lice/Scabies
Syphilis
HPV
Herpes
Hepatitis B
HIV
Using the information from both websites, answer the following questions.
1. What is an STI and why should you care?
2. What is the difference between an STD and an STI?
3. Circle which STI’s you can cure:
Chlamydia
Public Lice/Scabies
Hepatitis B
Gonorrhea
Syphilis
HIV
Trichomoniasis
HPV
LGV
Herpes
4. Circle the infections you cannot cure but you can treat:
Chlamydia
Public Lice/Scabies
Hepatitis B
Gonorrhea
Syphilis
HIV
Trichomoniasis
HPV
LGV
Herpes
5. List some of the consequences of not getting treated:
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?