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This STI handout on the treatment of yeast and fungal infections was developed by BCCDC.

Causes DGI occurs in up to 3 percent of people who have untreated gonorrhea. It affects people with vaginas/internal genitals four times more often than people with penises/external genitals. Symptoms Early symptoms are often...

A study done by the BC Centre for Disease Control has been in the news recently.  The study looked at acute HIV infection in gay men to see if a new testing method, combined with social marketing campaigns to promote the test, would lead...

If you took a 5 day dosage of zithromax for an infection other than chlamydia, would it cure chlamydia? The dosage was 500 mg on day 1 followed by 250 mg on the next 4 days. I know the standard recommended dosage is 1gm all at one time...

Background Provincial sexually transmitted infection (STI) data was used to describe the number of new STI (i.e., chlamydia, gonorrhea and infectious syphilis) case reports in BC overall (1991-2013) and to describe trends for the past ten...

A sexually transmitted infection (STI) is an infection you can get if you have sex with someone who has the infection. There are many kinds of STIs.

can i have an IUD if i have a yeast infection and will eating mushrooms worsen my yeast infection?
What causes STI is it women tha infect us?
Can you get hiv by eating infected food?
Does hiv infection advance the onset of menopause in women.What are the signs that menopause in women is a sign of hiv infection and not due to the age factor.
The bacteria that cause syphilis infections are only able to survive outside of the body momentarily before dying. Dose that mean seconds or few min exposed to air
Does the rash in acute HIV infection appears and disappears, or it just stay for 1 week or 2?
Can I be infected by HIV after having sex wit an HIV career using a condom. Can sucking the girls breast and her Mouth cause me to be infected

Background Since 2009, BCCDC has been using a more sensitive HIV test (known as the NAAT - nucleic acid amplification test) for patients who present for HIV testing at several clinics in downtown Vancouver.   These clinics - the BCCDC...

Background Hepatitis B (HBV) is a vaccine-preventable infection. People who have not been vaccinated, however, may become infected through contact with the body fluids of an HBV-infected person. While the early stages of HBV infection may...

I played sex with infected girl buh I used a condom and she has been on medications for 7years.my fear is I didn't remove a condom when my penis was still hard it didn't break or slip off am I infected too

Article reviewed Brown JM, Hess KL, Brown S, Murphy C, Waldman AL, Hezareh M. Intravaginal practices and risk of bacterial vaginosis and candidiasis infection among a cohort of women in the United States. Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Apr;121(4):...

Genital Chlamydia In 2014, the rate of genital chlamydia increased to 288.4 per 100,000 population, continuing the overall provincial trend of a steady increase since 1998. The highest rates were in Vancouver, Northwest and Northeast...

Background In a previous update we described the window periods of different HIV tests in BC. In this update we will focus on pooled nucleic acid amplification testing (pooled NAAT), which can detect HIV an average of 10-12 days after...

Genital chlamydia In 2016, the rate of genital chlamydia increased to 317.6 (15,057 cases) per 100,000 population in British Columbia (BC), continuing the overall provincial trend of a steady increase since 1998.  The highest rates...