While the summer favors meetings, the Roche laboratory has posted a series of videos online to alert the general public to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
Soft music, deserted beach and young couple embracing languidly. The two lovers begin to undress when suddenly a masked man rushes on them to warn the young boy that his partner is a carrier, without his knowledge, of “mycoplasma genitalium” a sexually transmitted infection (STI) which “in the eyes of all advance hidden “.
In order to remind the general public of the risk of STIs as the summer holidays approach, “a period conducive to meetings”, the pharmaceutical laboratory Roche Diagnostics France posted a new social media awareness video in early July. This is part of her web series produced as part of her campaign on women’s health entitled “For them, today and for life”.
STIs are spread mainly through unprotected sex, the risks being even greater with multiple partners. Anyone who is sexually active can be a carrier of an STI and infect their partner. Today, a million new people are infected every day in the world. And, because infections don’t always have visible signs or symptoms, people often ignore them.
Detected early, the most frequent STIs are easily treated
Also, if you have had unprotected sex with a partner you don’t know very well, do not hesitate to go and have you taken (blood test, urine analysis, smear) in a laboratory. Detected early, the most frequent STIs are easily treated with antibiotics or by a simple local treatment such as cream or ova. However, diagnosed late, some diseases can lead to serious complications.
On its site, Roche gives details. “Chlamydiosis is benign if it is quickly taken care of. Diagnosed late, it can be the cause of ectopic pregnancy, premature births or infertility”, it is in particular written. Syphilis, on the other hand, can cause neurological disorders and complications in the liver, kidneys and bones. Hepatitis B, the most common STI in the world (one in two people do not have it), can progress to cirrhosis or cancer of the liver. As for HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS, people who have it must be notified as soon as possible, the risk of transmission being higher at the onset of infection.
Remember, however, that STIs can also be transmitted through the bloodstream and between mother and child during pregnancy and / or childbirth.
See Roche’s awareness video below:
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