AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-76560398/soon-after-having-unsafe.html" title="Facts and information about "How soon after having unsafe sex can I find out if I've contracted an STD?".(Brief Article)">"How soon after having unsafe sex can I find out if I've contracted an STD?".(Brief Article)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Cosmopolitan are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
"How soon after having unsafe sex can I find out if I've contracted an STD?".(Brief Article)
You'll need to wait about one month after having unprotected sex before being tested, says Suzanne Trupin, M.D., a professor of OB--GYN at the University of Illinois at Urbana. To check for chlamydia and gonorrhea, your doctor will take a sample (like a Pap smear) and send it to a lab; results take about a week. Both bacterial infections can be fixed with antibiotics. If ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- Doctors fear that rise in infection rates points to a return to unsafe sex....
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Sheldon, Tony July 5, 2003 700+ words
...Netherlands have increased by two thirds in three years, leaving researchers "alarmed" because it points to an increase in unsafe sex. The total figure for all sexually transmitted infections rose over three years from about 5500 to 9500. The researchers...
- Hepatitis C and unsafe sex: there is some risk.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: AIDS Treatment News James, John S. June 24, 2005 700+ words
...not inject drugs, those who reported unsafe sex had 0.7 per 100 patient years, while...hepatitis C. For those not injecting drugs, unsafe sex was associated with 3.5 times the risk...others, and the Swiss HIV Cohort Group. Unsafe Sex and Increased Incidence of Hepatitis...
- Unsafe-sex storm brews in San Francisco.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Romesburg, Don September 12, 2000 700+ words
...String attack. The report itself is the latest indication that unsafe sex among gay men seems to be returning with a vengeance. The...get away from the lack of hard numbers." The debate about unsafe sex among gay men has been shadowed by accusations about actions...
- Alcohol leads to unsafe sex among drug users. (Your Life).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) March 1, 2002 700+ words
...I., have uncovered an intimate bond between drinking and unsafe sex among injection drug users. "Among individuals who use drugs...yet it is likely to reduce certain inhibitions and lead to unsafe sex," Stein points out. Alcohol consumption may be a little...
- Despite Symptoms, Many Kenyans Delay Treatment For STDs, Have Unsafe Sex....
- Magazine article from: International Family Planning Perspectives Brown, B. December 1, 2001 700+ words
Men and women in Nairobi, Kenya, wait approximately one week after the appearance of sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms to seek treatment at a health clinic, according to a survey of 471 men and women attending a public STD clinic. (1) Furthermore, once they receive a referral for STD
- "Unsafe sex": the consequences.(Canada)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight November 1, 2004 700+ words
Toronto--Last January Thane Burnett in the Toronto Sun (Jan. 11, 2004) reported that sexual diseases are bounding back. While we were learning to fight new diseases such as SARS, others which were thought to have been brought under control have returned with a vengeance. Burnett wrote that between
- Rise in unsafe sex.(practices of teenagers)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Practice Nurse June 22, 2001 700+ words
Thirty per cent of young people have had unprotected sex in the past 12 months, the Durex Report 2001 finds. Almost a quarter of 16-20 year olds surveyed didn't use a condom during sex because they got carried away and 15 per cent admitted they were too drunk to think about it. Another survey, by
- Unsafe sex is the main mode of HIV transmission. (WHO News).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Bulletin of the World Health Organization April 1, 2003 700+ words
...mode of transmission (see p. 307). They concluded that the vast majority of the data point to the far greater role of unsafe sex. Having made this point, the group also stressed the urgent importance of safe and appropriate use of injections. Of the...
- Unsafe sex common among women with HIV.(survey)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Chain Drug Review August 14, 2006 700+ words
A recent study involving 426 HIV-positive, injection drug-using women living in New York City, Baltimore, Miami and San Francisco published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes reveals that these women do not routinely use condoms with their uninfected partners. It shows that
- Treatment optimism and unsafe sex among people living with HIV in Rio de...
- Magazine article from: Reproductive Health Matters November 1, 2006 700+ words
...minority of participants, and more commonly among men than women, availability of HAART was conceptualised as a rationale for unsafe sex. Treatment optimism appeared to be the means to avoid acknowledging how deeper psychosocial issues may have been influencing...
Source: HighBeam Research, "How soon after having unsafe sex can I find out if I've contracted...