1Assistant Professor, Medical Sociology,
2Assistant Professor, Statistics,
3Professor,
4Post Graduate Students, Department of Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sexually transmitted diseases (STD), also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STI) and venereal diseases (VD), are illnesses that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual behaviour, including vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex. Some STIs can also be contracted by using IV drug needles after their use by an infected person, as well as through any incident involving the contact of a wound with contaminated blood or through childbirth or breastfeeding. Sexually transmitted infections have been well known for hundreds of years, and venereology is the branch of medicine that studies these diseases.
STDs, Chlamydia trachomatis, Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Prevention
