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This booklet would prove a good medium for you to give your
message to others. Through this booklet you would be in a
position to create awareness among health workers and/or
your neighbours about sexually transmitted diseases (STD)
and their disastrous consequences. Further you would be able
to advise them on how to protect from STD and to maintain
healthy sexual relations.
In this campaign you can meet a person individually or
married couples in private and talk to them frankly. You can
talk to them at the health centres or see them at their homes.
You can also call small meetings of men or women consisting
of 3 or 4 persons to convey messages.
To make these meetings more effective some suggestions are
given below :
1. Start the discussion with some general health topic, e.g.
how to avoid pregnancy or how to conceive etc.
2. Hold the picture on the right side of this booklet at a higher
level so that everyone can see it conveniently.
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3.. Now read the information given on the left side of the
booklet and simultaneously explain the picture.
4. Allow and encourage the audience to ask questions and
on the basis of answers to these questions, you can
continue your discussion and proceed further.
5. Distribute a packet of condom free to everyone present in
the meeting. Kindly ensure that they open the packet and
examine the condom. Now tell them in detail, step by step,
how to use condom properly. If the persons present in the
meeting do not object, take a banana to represent penis
and show how a condom should be used.
6. Kindly note in your diary important points and queries
made in the meeting so that you may discuss these with
your colleagues. This would help you prepare for the next
meeting.
7. You can easily make additional copies of this booklet. It is
very simple and economical to make photo copies of this
booklet. When a person askes for a copy of the booklet,
you can give a copy to him.
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Yes, you can also suffer from STD.
If you have natural vaginal or unnatural (annal) sexual
intercourse with an infected person.
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STDs are a group of communicable diseases which are
transmitted from an infected person to a healthy person mainly
through sexual intercourse.
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Many STDs show early symptoms causing pain and/or
discomforfTo genitals.
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Symptoms of STDs (in men and women)
Drip or discharge from
penis/vagina.
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Sores/ulcers on or near
sex organs.
Burning or pain
passing urine.
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Can I have a STD even if I don’t show any symptoms?
Yes, sometimes a person can be infected with a STD and look
and feel perfectly healthy. Some STDs show no symptoms,
particularly in women.
Remember your partner may look perfectly healthy to you but
is infected with a STD.
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How can STDs harm me?
STDs can lead to infertility amongst men and women, and
complications in pregnancy which lead to miscarriages, still
births or birth defects in infants.
STDs increase the risk of acquiring AIDs
AIDs is fatal and has no cure.
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What can I do if I have any symptom of STDs?
Seek medical treatment immediately. Most STDs can be cured
with proper medical treatment. Do not delay medical treatment
as this increases the health risk.
Untreated STDs can cause serious problems like chronic ill
health, disability or even cancer.
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Urge your partner to seek medical treatment
It is most likely that your sexual partner is infected with the
same STD as you and so both of you need immediate medical
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Help your doctor to help you.
Follow your doctor’s advice carefully. Incomplete treatment
can aggravate disease and long-term problems may crop up.
If symptoms do not disappear, go back toyour doctor for
further medication. You can be infected with more than one
STD at the same time.
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There are no magic remedies for STDs.
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How can I protect myself from STDs.
1. Keep healthy sexual relations with your partner. Regular
check-ups lead to early diagnosis of STDs. So both of you
should seek medical advice.
2. Remember, your partner may look healthy to you but he/
she can still be infected with a STD. Always use condom
during intercourse.
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How condom use can save you from STD?
Because during intercourse semen of an infected person
remains inside condom and does not come in contact with
female vagina.
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If the woman is infected, STD infection in vaginal fluids stay
outside condom. It does not come into contact with penis.
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Infected women
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Must use a condom everytime you have sex. Proper use of a
condom is essential for your protection.
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Open the package carefully
so that the condom does
not tear.
Pinch the condom’s tip
between forefinger and
thumb.
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After sexual activity remove
condom carefully without
spilling fluid.
Knot the open end of the
condom,
Continue squeezing the
condom tip, and unroll to
cover erect penis.
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Wrap the condom in paper
and throw it in a dustbin.
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Issued in the public interest by the National AIDS Control Organisation and the World Health Organisation.
National AIDS Control Organisation, Government of India, Nirman Bhawan, Sth Floor, New Delhi-110 001.
Produced by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
Government of India. Printed at Nutech Photolithographers, New Delhi-110 002.
No. 2/7/96-PPI
English, 50,000
Feb ’97
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