Essays on Gonorrhea

STIs (Sexually transmitted infections) include all infections that an individual can get infected with through sexual intercourse. These diseases used to be called venereal diseases, and the most common types of STIs include gonorrhea, hepatitis, HIV, Chlamydia, and syphilis. However, there are some other bacterial infections that affect sex organs due to effects of harmful bacteria. These infections such as bacterial vaginosis do not necessarily have to be spread through having sex (CDC, 2014). This paper will consider gonorrhea and congenital syphilis and discuss the age ranges as well as the infection rates for the two infections. The paper ...

Study question/ objective

Gonorrhea is a contagious disease that is often transmitted from one individual to the other one through sexual contact. It is one of the commonest sexually transmitted infections that affect young individuals of between ages 15 years to 24 years since the majority of them do not understand how well to take care of themselves (Kidd & Workowski, 2015). As such, it is vital that a program be developed with the intentions of ensuring that this portion of the populace can receive the utmost care which will satisfactorily address this problem. The purpose of this program, therefore, will be to ...

Teaching outline

Introduction Gonorrhea prevalence is high among adolescents aged between 15-24 years; this is largely attributed to the fact that most young people are sexually active, most adolescents also engage in risk sexual behaviors such as having multiple sex partners and having unprotected sex (Cheung, Montgomery & Benjamins, 2015). Lack of awareness and information on the need to get tested and treated among the adolescents is what has exacerbated its spread. Therefore, there is the need to create awareness about gonorrhea amongst adolescents.

Learning objectives

The goal of this educational program is to enlighten the adolescents on the causes, signs and symptoms of ...

The effectiveness of the educational program would be determined by the positive outcomes it produces. A project would not be viable if it does not achieve the intended results set at the planning stage. The federal government, health facilities, and other health agencies fund many educational programs that are geared at improving the lives of adolescents. However, there is a need for the stakeholders and management of this projects to go an extra mile and evaluate these programs to ensure that the meet the required results; improve the lives of the adolescents (Lopez et al., 2013). The effectiveness of ...

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 ...

Instructional Strategies

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are a sensitive area of discussion, both for the learner and the instructor. In this regard, teaching the topic should be approached while keeping in mind the feelings of students, which will most likely be discomfort, in order to facilitate learning. Since different learners have personal preferences, the strategies will encompass this instance. Also, the instructional strategies for the education program that targets teenagers between the ages of 15 years and 24 years will include both indirect and interactive instruction strategies as discussed further below:

Art Students

For the correspondents who are inclined towards the arts, that ...

The responsibility of fighting against same-sex marriage rests with all and sundry. Gay marriages not only have lasting consequences to the parties advocating for it but also to their communities, nations of their residence and the entire world. For instance, gay men are at a high risk of contracting sexually transmitted ailments since they have a firm belief that such diseases are no longer life-threatening. Additionally, homosexuality can lead to a decrease in the birth rates in a given society while any typical country requires a stable human population base to function properly. In other words, by legalizing same-sex ...

Purpose

The gonorrhea teaching plan is composed to assist the instructor concerning the objectives intended to be achieved by the instructor. In this case, an instructor can relate the information to be provided to the learner in the context of the objectives, to achieve the intended outcomes. A teaching plan will also assist the learner to keep in perspective the learning content and able to create relationships in the information presented. This approach will enhance the learner’s understanding and in the end, achieve the instructor’s primary objective, which is to gain comprehension of the course material and facilitate ...

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

Belenko, S., Dembo, R., Weiland, D., Rollie, M., Salvatore, C., Hanlon, A., & Childs, K. (2008). Recently arrested adolescents are at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases, 35(8), 758. Butler-Jones, D. (2013). The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2013: Infectious Disease-The Never-ending Threat. Public Health Agency of Canada. CDC. (2007). Summary of a Review of the Literature: Programs to Promote Chlamydia Screening. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/std/healthcomm/chlamydialitreview2008.pdf Dutt, K., Chow, E. P., Huffam, S., Klassen, K., Fairley, C. K., Bradshaw, C. S., & Chen, M. Y. (2015). High prevalence of rectal ...

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 science of human cloning is one of the most fascinating entities of the 21st-century biology. The announcement of a cloned sheep ignited an international debate in the late 1990s; two and half decades later, the debate is still very much alive (Li 1-2). The researchers at the Roslin Institute, Scotland, announced that they had fruitfully cloned an adult mammal (Caplan 1-3). The procedure used in cloning is called somatic cell nuclear transfer. It involves the transfer of the genetic code from the cell of an adult organism into an enucleated organism egg. Over the years, the science of ...

Introduction

The human reproductive system can be affected by pathogens like any other organs. An example of a bacterium is Neiserria Gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea in both males and females. The disease can be treated through normal antibiotics. This presentation will highlight the human reproductive system of both sexes; how gonorrhea is caused, diagnosed, and treated; and the short and long term effects of the disease.

Male Reproductive System

It is grouped into two: external and internal organs. Internal organs include the penis, scrotum, epididymis, and testes. The penis engages in sexual intercourse, the scrotum is the outer skin covering the testes, the testes ...

Introduction

If a person has sex, they may also have a sexually transmitted disease, with restrained or perceptible signs. Sexually transmitted diseases (STD), also known as venereal diseases (VD), are diseases that transmit significantly between humans through human sexual behavior, containing vaginal intercourse, and other forms. More recently the term sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has begun to be preferred, as it covers a broader range of meaning; an individual may be infected, and may possibly infect others, without having a disease.

Some STDs can also be communicated through the use of IV used drug needles between an infected person and non-infected person, over ...

Staging of kidney disease in patients involves assigning the stage of the disease based on the level to which the kidney of the patient in question is infected. Chronic kidney disease is defined as either kidney damage or GFR less than 60ml/min//1.73m squared for three months or more. Staging is important because it makes the work of the medical practitioners easy in terms of patient treatment (Hamm, 2010). As a result of staging, medical practitioners are in a better position of knowing the exact patients with the most advanced level of kidney infection with relative ease. This makes it very efficient ...

The major health challenge faced by individuals living within Newark revolves around sexually transmitted diseases. Based on the community`s medical statistics over four thousand individuals have had one of two common STD`s within the region. The common STD`s within Newark include Chlamydia and gonorrhea. Of the over four thousand individuals, 3,022 have had Chlamydia while 1,228 have had gonorrhea. The rational implemented while choosing the STD`s included identifying a health issue that closely links with reproductive health as identified within the healthy people 2020 (Office of Population Affairs, 2010). In addition, the rational also ...

Sexually Transmitted Disease

As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 sexually transmitted diseases, or sexually transmitted infections (STIs) “spread primarily through person-to-person sexual contact” and include a variety of “more than 30 different sexually transmissible bacteria, viruses and parasites” (“Sexually Transmitted WHO”). This problematic issue affects untold millions of people around the globe. According to World Health Organization (2014) reports the sexually infectious conditions most commonly transmitted include cases of syphilis, genital warts, genital herpes, chlamydial infection, trichomoniasis, gonorrhea, human papillomavirus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In particular instances infections may be spread via pregnancy and childbirth, causing the child ...

Gonorrhea refers to a group of clinical conditions caused by infection with Neisseria gonorrhea. N. gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen. Gonorrhea is an old disease that dates back to more than 2000 years ago (Walker & Sweet, 2011). It is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States (US) after Chlamydia (LeFevre, 2014). The disease is gaining public health importance because N. gonorrhea has developed resistance to the antibiotic drugs previously used to treat it in the United States. Currently, only one class of drug, the cephalosporins, is recommended for its treatment (Walker & Sweet, 2011). This paper ...

Culturally-competent nursing

Culturalogical assessment is significant while providing nursing care to individuals, families, groups and institutions of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Leininger’s theory of culture care diversity and universality (CCDU) emphasizes on the vital role of nurses in entering the client’s world to discover cultural knowledge embedded within individual and family values. Therefore, nurses should be knowledgeable about the client’s culture and factors influencing their needs and lifeways. In today’s era of globalization, diverse populations are disseminated in all corners of the world. Barriers exist in the healthcare practices for the diverse populations and there is ...

Introduction

Sally Thomas is a twenty three years old mother and is comprehensively covered in this clinical scenario. The scenario covers aspects of her family history which are of essence to any medical decisions associated with any clinical procedure. The aspect of her past pregnancies will be comprehensively articulated in the case study. Her medical history will be analyzed and clinical solutions proposed for her problems. It is pertinent to note that the scenario will be comprehensive and will articulate each stage of the pregnancy. The scenario will be broken down into multiple sub section which includes the ante partum, fetal ...

- The answer to this question depends on the definition of an STD. For instance, Shigella was once though to be a Gastrointestinal disease, but with modern sexual practices and the increase of oral to anal intercourse it is now becoming an STD as well. Therefore, no precise number of STDs can be stated but there are now >30 infections classified as predominantly sexually transmitted (Harrisons, 2008, p. 822) - The most common viral STD is HPV. It is said that nearly ½ of the population is infected with the virus at any given time. Both males and females can ...

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) has evolved from vulnerable diseases (VD) to sexually transmitted infection (STI) and now STD. it is known as a disease which results from viral, bacterial and all those infections that are acquired through sexual contact. Women of all socio economic backgrounds can acquire sexually transmitted disease. These infections occur in men and women, but women are more at risk of acquiring them. The reason why the prevalence is more in women is partly due to the fact they are asymptomatic in women. This implies that the transmission rates are very high in women and they are ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are major epidemiological barrier to achieving standard “health for all”. This category of diseases affects both the developing and developed worlds though with different forms of diseases and epidemiology. Several strategies have been instituted to control the disorder in terms of prevalence and incidence however, prevention still remain the key. Chlamydia infection, a sexually transmitted infection caused bacteria known as chlamydia trachomatis is a major STI affecting a considerable population of both developing and developed worlds. This infection affects majorly human genital organs and the eye. The infection is usually transmitted by sexual activities such as vaginal, anal ...

Preteens Sex

Introduction Teen sex has become one of the greatest concerns not only for most parents but also many people in almost every corner of the globe. Parents are ever worried about the behavior of their teenagers as far as sexual intercourse is concerned. Newfound sense of independence as well as raging hormones may be a contributory factor for the irresponsibleness of teens. Anxieties over sexually transmitted diseases coupled with concerns regarding unplanned pregnancies, raises more worries among parents regarding sexual activeness of their teens. A number of measures have been put into place with an objective of reducing the ...