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- Title
An Ounce of Prevention...STDs and Women's Health.
- Authors
Althaus, Frances A.
- Abstract
The article discusses several factors that effects women's health and presents information on sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Throughout the first half of the 20th century, public health concerns about STDs centered on syphilis and gonorrhea. The advent of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s raised the level of public awareness about STDs, but the consequences and costs of sexually transmitted infections still are not generally recognized. There is a widespread perception that, with the exception of AIDS, STDs does not cause serious health problems, and that widespread screening and treatment are not cost-effective. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Infection with STDs can result in severe health problems. STDs also cause substantial mortality, yet such deaths are usually not perceived as STD related, in part because they are indirect or delayed effects. Most deaths that are attributable to STDs are caused by incurable viral infections. This year, AIDS is expected to become one of the five leading causes of death among women aged 15-44, as of March 31,1991. The rate of AIDS-related deaths is disproportionately high among black women.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S health; SEXUALLY transmitted diseases; GONORRHEA; SYPHILIS; AIDS; MEDICAL screening; VIRUS diseases; DEATH; BLACK women
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p173
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135741