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PrEP can help reduce your risk of contracting HIV through sexual contact or injection drug use. PrEP may be taken as a daily pill or administered as a bimonthly injection. According to HIV.gov, approximately 1.2 million U.S. people ages 13 years and older have HIV. Of this group, about 13% are not aware that they have it. PrEP can help reduce the risk of transmission between serodiscordant (mixed-status) partners. If you don't have HIV but are at an increased risk of infection, talk with a healthcare professional about whether PrEP is right for you. How does PrEP work? Pills used for PrEP belong to a class of antiviral medications called nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). NRTIs block the reverse transcriptase enzyme HIV uses to convert its RNA into DNA (reverse transcription). This stops the virus from multiplying in your body. Injections for PrEP are an antiretroviral called integrase strand inhibitors (INSTIs). INSTIs block the enzyme integrase, anoth...

Key facts More than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are acquired every day worldwide in people 15–49 years old, the majority of which are asymptomatic. In 2020 there were are an estimated 374 million new infections in people 15–49 years with 1 of 4 curable STIs: chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and trichomoniasis. An estimated 8 million adults between 15 and 49 years old were infected with syphilis in 2022. More than 500 million people aged 15–49 years are estimated to have a genital infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV or herpes) (1) . Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with over 311 000 cervical cancer deaths each year (2) . 1.1 million pregnant women were estimated to be infected with syphilis in 2022, resulting in over 390 000 adverse birth outcomes. STIs have a direct impact on sexual and reproductive health through stigmatization, infertility, cancers and pregnancy complications and ...

Although the risk is low, you can get a sexually transmitted infection (STI)—often used instead of a sexually transmitted disease (STD)—from kissing. Herpes, cytomegalovirus (CMV), human papillomavirus (HPV), and syphilis may spread through active lesions (i.e., cold sores) or saliva. In contrast, you cannot get STIs like chlamydia, hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or trichomoniasis from kissing. Read on to learn about STIs that may pass through kissing and their symptoms and treatments.  Leah Flores / Stocksy It's possible to spread certain STIs—including herpes, HMV, HPV, and syphilis—through kissing. "There are STIs that can be spread through non-sexual contact [like kissing] that are also spread through sexual contact," Martha Rac, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine, told Health. Still, kissing is generally a low-risk activity compared to anal,...

Content From : HIV.gov • Updated : November 15, 2023 • 5 min read Topics Global Health Global Health Initiative PEPFAR President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief The Global HIV and AIDS Epidemic HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the world's most serious public health challenges. But there is a global commitment to stopping new HIV infections and ensuring that everyone with HIV has access to HIV treatment. The latest statistics on HIV around the world from Exit Disclaimer include: Number of People with HIV —There were approximately 39 million people across the globe with HIV in 2022. Of these, 37.5 million were adults, and 1.5 million were children (<15 years old). In addition, 53% were women and girls. New HIV Infections —An estimated 1.3 million individuals worldwide acquired HIV in 2022, marking a 38% decline in new HIV infections since 2010 and 59% since the peak in 1995. New HIV infections, or "HIV incidence," refers to the estimated number of ...

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Key facts A total of 1.3 million people died from TB in 2022 (including 167 000 people with HIV). Worldwide, TB is the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above HIV and AIDS). In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, including 5.8 million men, 3.5 million women and 1.3 million children. TB is present in all countries and age groups. TB is curable and preventable. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a public health crisis and a health security threat. Only about 2 in 5 people with drug resistant TB accessed treatment in 2022. Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 75 million lives since the year 2000. US$ 13 billion is needed annually for TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care to achieve the global target agreed at the 2018 UN high level-meeting on TB. Ending the TB epidemic by 2030 is among the health targets of the United Nations Sustainable De...

This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by  clicking here . Just a decade ago, syphilis infections among infants were nearly eradicated in Canada. Yet there were warning signs the bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) — known for causing painless sores, organ damage, and stillborn infants — was making a comeback. First, rates started rising among adults in the early 2000s, followed by an alarming spike in congenital infections passed from mothers to their babies.  The latest federal data shows there were nearly 14,000 cases of infectious syphilis across the country in 2022, as well as 117 instances of early congenital syphilis. That's a nearly 15-fold increase from just eight nation-wide cases of syphilis reported in infants five years earlier. "When I started in clinical practic...