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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...

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

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 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.

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...

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...

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...

Please circulate these key STI updates to your networks. Benzathine penicillin (Bicillin L-A) is once again available in Canada Several months ago, Pfizer Canada – the sole Canadian manufacturer of Bicillin L-A – announced that it would be...

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...

What causes STI is it women tha infect us?
can i have an IUD if i have a yeast infection and will eating mushrooms worsen my yeast infection?
I am a man, can I get infected from reciving oral sex...?
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
I mightve had a yeast infection couple weeks ago. Now my discharge is thick and 'slimy'. what does that mean? What does black looking period mean
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...