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Answer the following questions, true or false. Then check the answers below.
- All STIs can be cured.
- STIs can only be transmitted if there is penetration.
- There is a vaccine available against HPV for people with a vulva only.
- Some STIs can be treated and cured without medical attention.
- Abstinence is the only 100 percent sure way of avoiding STIs.
- Abstinence means not having vaginal, oral, and anal sex.
- People with a vulva cannot transmit an STI to another person with a vulva.
- Correct use of condoms reduces, but does not eliminate, the chance for STI transmission.
- People with STIs usually have symptoms.
- STIs are commonly transmitted even when no signs or symptoms are present.
Answers
- False; Viral STIs (such as HIV and herpes) can’t be cured but treatment can reduce symptoms and reduce the possibility of transmitting the STI to another person.
- False; STIs can be transmitted through penetration and many other behaviors.
- False; There is a vaccine available against HPV for people with a vulva or a penis.
- False; Bacterial STIs require antibiotics to cure.
- True; Abstinence means not having vaginal, oral, or anal sex, as well as no genital-to-genital or mouth-to-genital skin contact.
- True
- False; People with a vulva can transmit an STI to another person with a vulva.
- True
- False; Many STIs have no symptoms, which is why regular testing is so important.
- True
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