STI - Sexually Transmitted Infections

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The Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Centre

In Canada some of the highest rates and increase in STIs are in young people ages 15 to 24. If you are having sex, or thinking about having sex, you need to know how to avoid sexually transmitted infections.

Table of Contents

Realize Your Risk

• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhea
• Trichomonas
• LGV
• Pubic Lice and Scabies
• Syphilis
• HPV
• Herpes
• Hepatitis B
• HIV

Rate Your Risk

• Kissing
• Touching
• Oral Sex
• Vaginal Sex
• Anal Sex

Reduce Your Risk

• Choose not to have sex
• If you choose to have sex, use a condom
  • How to use a condom
• If you choose to have sex, get tested
  • When to go?
  • What to expect?
  • What should you know?
• Websites to check out

Having sex to be cool isn’t cool.

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Public Health Agency of Canada

The Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section, Public Health Agency of Canada, wishes to acknowledge the Sexuality Education Resource Centre and its youth group, the S Team, for the development of this resource; Planned Parenthood Toronto whose website spiderbytes.ca was a source for content contained in this resource; and, the STI professionals and youth that reviewed this document prior to publication.

Aussi disponible en français sous le titre < ITS: les infections transmises sexuellement >

This document is available on the internet at: www.publichealth.gc.ca/sti

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Health, 2007
Cat. HP40-13/2007E
ISBN 978-0-662-45530-1