Be informed to help protect you against sexually transmitted infections or make other aware, your friends, your children become teenagers ...
1) A person who has a cold sore can transmit genital herpes to your partner:
Yes but only during the period of contagion of cold sores.
Absolutely not.
Traditionally, the cold sore is caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV 1) and genital herpes in HSV 2. However, one can give an HSV1 and HSV2 vice versa. Thus, a partner who has a cold sore can transmit genital herpes and vice versa.
2) The morning-after pill is free:
For everyone.
Only for minors.
Emergency contraception is available in pharmacies without a prescription.
It is issued free of charge only to minors.
It pays off for adults and reimbursed by health insurance to 65% on prescription.
3) Condoms and HPV family of viruses involved in cancer of the cervix:
The condom does not protect any of papillomavirus.
It protects a little, but insufficiently.
Papillomaviruses are viruses transmitted through semen or sexual fluids, but by the mucous membranes. However, the condom does not prevent any contact between mucous membranes, it prevents poorly papillomavirus transmission.
The only way to protect against HPV and prevent cervical cancer of the uterus is the vaccination of young girls and for regular smears.
4) In case of risk-taking, testing for AIDS should be done:
Immediately
Three months later.
If you think you have been exposed to a risk of infection (unprotected sex, condom breakage, injury with an object contaminated with blood, sharing of injection equipment ...), go to the emergency hospital in a center for anonymous testing and free (CDAG) or see a doctor within a maximum of 48 hours. A preventive treatment may be prescribed.
Otherwise, within 15 to 90 days after exposure to risk, it is possible to detect if you have or not contaminated with the AIDS virus through a screening test.
5) Certain sexually transmitted virus can cause:
Cancer.
Diabetes.
Papillomaviruses are viruses in the origin of cancers of the cervix.
6) The morning-after pill is effective:
With the sole condition to be taken no later than the next day (within 24 hours no more).
Even beyond the next 24 hours the risk sex, ça vaut le coup yet to take it.
You should know that the effectiveness of the morning-after pill (or emergency contraception) is not 100%. It is around 95% when taken within 24 hours and then decreases rapidly to reach for example 45% after 72 hours. Faced with the risk of unwanted pregnancy, yet it's worth the time to take it!
7) After several months of use of condom with a single partner, we can stop the condom:
Only if you trust in her partner.
Without ever having done so, each tested for AIDS.
It may be a carrier of the AIDS virus, without knowing it. It may also underestimate their risk-taking. This is not a question of trust or not. There is no question of stopping the condom (which is the one and the only way to guard against this very serious illness) but each partner has been tested for the AIDS virus. Then each partner shows the result to another.
8) The papillomavirus can also cause diseases in humans such as:
Genital warts (condyloma).
Testicular cancer.
Papillomaviruses are not only responsible for cancer of the cervix. In women as in men, they can cause the mucous membranes of the genital warts or ridges cock, kinds of small warts.
9) Is there a preventive treatment against AIDS?
Yes provided it is taken within 48 hours of taking risks.
No, there is no treatment that can prevent AIDS.
There is indeed a preventive treatment to be taken within 48 hours of taking risks. It reduces the risk of infection after exposure to the AIDS virus. It consists of several drugs active against HIV and must be taken for 4 weeks.
10) When tested for AIDS, the result is known:
Immediately.
Within 3 to 7 days.
The test requires only a simple blood sample is taken, but the result is not immediate. It will be communicated within 3 to 7 days, during a second consultation.
1) A person who has a cold sore can transmit genital herpes to your partner:
Yes but only during the period of contagion of cold sores.
Absolutely not.
Traditionally, the cold sore is caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV 1) and genital herpes in HSV 2. However, one can give an HSV1 and HSV2 vice versa. Thus, a partner who has a cold sore can transmit genital herpes and vice versa.
2) The morning-after pill is free:
For everyone.
Only for minors.
Emergency contraception is available in pharmacies without a prescription.
It is issued free of charge only to minors.
It pays off for adults and reimbursed by health insurance to 65% on prescription.
3) Condoms and HPV family of viruses involved in cancer of the cervix:
The condom does not protect any of papillomavirus.
It protects a little, but insufficiently.
Papillomaviruses are viruses transmitted through semen or sexual fluids, but by the mucous membranes. However, the condom does not prevent any contact between mucous membranes, it prevents poorly papillomavirus transmission.
The only way to protect against HPV and prevent cervical cancer of the uterus is the vaccination of young girls and for regular smears.
4) In case of risk-taking, testing for AIDS should be done:
Immediately
Three months later.
If you think you have been exposed to a risk of infection (unprotected sex, condom breakage, injury with an object contaminated with blood, sharing of injection equipment ...), go to the emergency hospital in a center for anonymous testing and free (CDAG) or see a doctor within a maximum of 48 hours. A preventive treatment may be prescribed.
Otherwise, within 15 to 90 days after exposure to risk, it is possible to detect if you have or not contaminated with the AIDS virus through a screening test.
5) Certain sexually transmitted virus can cause:
Cancer.
Diabetes.
Papillomaviruses are viruses in the origin of cancers of the cervix.
6) The morning-after pill is effective:
With the sole condition to be taken no later than the next day (within 24 hours no more).
Even beyond the next 24 hours the risk sex, ça vaut le coup yet to take it.
You should know that the effectiveness of the morning-after pill (or emergency contraception) is not 100%. It is around 95% when taken within 24 hours and then decreases rapidly to reach for example 45% after 72 hours. Faced with the risk of unwanted pregnancy, yet it's worth the time to take it!
7) After several months of use of condom with a single partner, we can stop the condom:
Only if you trust in her partner.
Without ever having done so, each tested for AIDS.
It may be a carrier of the AIDS virus, without knowing it. It may also underestimate their risk-taking. This is not a question of trust or not. There is no question of stopping the condom (which is the one and the only way to guard against this very serious illness) but each partner has been tested for the AIDS virus. Then each partner shows the result to another.
8) The papillomavirus can also cause diseases in humans such as:
Genital warts (condyloma).
Testicular cancer.
Papillomaviruses are not only responsible for cancer of the cervix. In women as in men, they can cause the mucous membranes of the genital warts or ridges cock, kinds of small warts.
9) Is there a preventive treatment against AIDS?
Yes provided it is taken within 48 hours of taking risks.
No, there is no treatment that can prevent AIDS.
There is indeed a preventive treatment to be taken within 48 hours of taking risks. It reduces the risk of infection after exposure to the AIDS virus. It consists of several drugs active against HIV and must be taken for 4 weeks.
10) When tested for AIDS, the result is known:
Immediately.
Within 3 to 7 days.
The test requires only a simple blood sample is taken, but the result is not immediate. It will be communicated within 3 to 7 days, during a second consultation.
