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The STD capital of California
Monica Valera, an 18-year-old college student from Shafter, knew no place to get tested for STIs in her hometown until when she spoke to Fusion three weeks ago. She is an undocumented person with no health insurance plan before enrolling in her university last year. She has learnt a place where she can for free or cheap –cost STI testing. The Planned Parenthood in Bakersfield is something most people don’t know. Valera asked her 17 years old brother if he has an idea of the reproductive health provider. He had no idea and went further ask if it serves the girl child only. The services are open to all genders.
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The Zika crisis
The millennials must take up the lead to deal with Zika crisis. When authorities discovered 14 cases of Zika in the neighboring Wynwood, Petie Pizzaro, 28, decided to create something out of the situation which resulted to pesticide spraying over his condo. Pizzaro cited drama on Tinder dating app, which is popular for hook-ups. 28 local cases of Zika in South Florida were later discovered by Friday whose root is Wynwood.
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Common STDs for men and women
The knowyourmeme.com released information on Blue Waffle Disease been deadly citing it is not a joke and that someone had witnessed a girl they knew die from the disease. The symptoms given included the information of waffle-like growth around the vagina causing it to discharge pus. However, all this was a joke and a myth that has circulated in high school classrooms for a while. On April, pranksters brought back the legendary disease to the attention of a New York woman councilor, Kathy McBride who ended up calling an impromptu meeting with the national health department. It was an embarrassing moment. However, she would have made the most out of the situation been that April is a National STD Education and Awareness Month.
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STD infections while pregnancy
In some cases, women can contract the sexually transmitted infections during their pregnancy period. Those diseases do affect not only the mother but also the unborn child. The STDs can lead to significant complications in women’s pregnancy according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The seriousness of these effects is seen in the nature that it becomes hard to treat them once the unborn child id infected with the virus causing them.
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The role of male circumcision
Circumcision which entails removal of the penis foreskin is done for cultural and ritual reasons. Mostly, the procedure is done on infants but in the recent times, male adults are going for the procedure too.
