Welcome everyone to the Melanin Initiative, I am Alisha Brown and one of your co-host for the Melanin Initiative podcast. “In healthcare, there is often too much information and not enough time. Here at The Melanin Initiative, we avoid TMI by breaking things down into language you can understand, we create a safe space to ask your questions, and share our nursing perspective without taking too much of your time.
In this episode we talk about:
- Sexually transmitted infections or STIs, formally known at STDs or sexually transmitted diseases
- The most common STIs
- Who’s at risk
- How disease is transmitted
- Testing and treatment options
Resources
- Urology Foundation: STIs https://www.urologyhealth.org/urology-a-z/s/sexually-transmitted-infections
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) STIs prevention, testing, and treatment https://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm
- CDC pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html
- Doxy PEP https://isprepforme.com/doxycycline-pep/
- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/std-symptoms-older-adults.html
- DC Board of Health PrEP https://dchealth.dc.gov/DCPrEPDAP
- Maryland PrEP https://www.prepmaryland.org/
- Virginia Department of Health PrEP and NPEP https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/disease-prevention/prep-and-npep/
- Find a LGBTQIA healthcare provider https://www.outcarehealth.org/outlist/
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