День: 14.11.2015

Improve Communication to Build Intimacy

The fourth step in healing as a couple is to learn to communicate with each other in ways that help you regain feelings of closeness and inti­macy. Couples who have been successful in rebuilding their relationship while one partner recovers from a porn problem often attribute their progress to having established routines for sharing information […]

THE HITE REPORT

Sexual satisfaction was a key part of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, with pleasure as the main aim. People were talking more openly about sex and according to sex researcher Shere Hite, the time had come to focus on the female orgasm. She showed many women what they had been missing. Using revelations in […]

Trichomoniasis

Trichomoniasis (trih-kuh-muh-NIE-uh-sus) is caused by a one-celled protozoan parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis. Incidence and Transmission Trichomoniasis is a common STI in both women and men. Between 7 and 8 million new cases of trichomoniasis occur each year in the United States (Centers for Disease Control, 2009k). The primary mode of transmission of this infection is […]

Symptoms

A woman with a yeast infection may notice that she has a white, clumpy discharge that looks something like cottage cheese. In addition, candidiasis is often associated with intense itching and soreness of the vaginal and vulval tissues, which typically become red and dry. Treatment A variety of treatments have proved effective in combating yeast […]

Europe and Central Asia

One of the biggest problems in many parts of Africa is that because of cost, only a small percent of the many people with HIV are receiving HAART therapy. In addition, millions of infected men and women are not being treated for opportunistic diseases. The South African government does not provide HAART therapy drugs to […]

^ GLOBAL ASPECTS OF AIDS’

The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS estimates that unless improvements are made in treatment and prevention, from 2000 to 2020, 68 million people in the 45 most heavily affected countries will die of AIDS. The global total of young people living with HIV/AIDS could experience a 70% increase by 2010 (Summers et al., 2002). What […]

Candidiasis

Candidiasis (kan-duh-DIE-uh-sus), also commonly referred to as a yeast infection, is primarily caused by a yeastlike fungus called Candida albicans. Incidence and Transmission Candidiasis is the second most common vaginal infection in North America. An esti­mated 75% of women will have at least one genital candidiasis infection in their lifetime (Workowski et al., 2010). The […]

Symptoms and Complications

Most women who are infected with BV manifest no overt symptoms of this infec­tion (Centers for Disease Control, 2009i). However, when present, the most common symptom of bacterial vaginosis in women is a foul-smelling, thin discharge that resem­bles flour paste in consistency. The discharge is usually gray or white, but it can also be yellow […]