#sti screening

[submissivefeminist]

Daddy’s coming for a visit so you know what that means!

Friendly reminder that you should get screened for STIs annually or with every new partner, whichever comes first. 💉

[submissivefeminist]

The guy I've been seeing decided to get an STI screening before our next date but the problem is that I've been telling him all the things I'll do to him when we're cleared and he's currently stuck in the parking lot of the lab with a full-on erection and can't go inside. 😈

[altaforra]

Should I test for an STD?

Well if you are contemplating marriage or a long term stable partner relationship, you must definitely get tested for STDs, thats what is very very important. Remember, STDs can wreck havoc in your relationship. Its the last thing you want. Get an STD test done here

[bestmultispecialityhospital-blog]

Why Are Health Checkups Necessary For Women?

Regular health checkups ensure that we detect diseases or illnesses one might have at an early stage. They also help educate people as to what should be done to improve your health and stay away from diseases in the future. In our busy lives, we can hardly make time for ourselves, be it reviewing our health conditions, check if we ate all our meals or not enough or not, if we exercise regularly and so on, but a health checkup is as necessary as it gets. 

Women are advised by doctors to visit their General Practitioner at least once every year. Some of the things that your check-up would involve would be, talking about you and your family’s medical history, dietary and exercise habits, and whether you smoke, consume alcohol or not.

Ensuring good health and picking up early signs of acute or chronic diseases or illnesses can be achieved by visiting your doctor for regular health check-ups. A variety of diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases, and some types of cancers, can be detected at an early stage and can be treated more efficiently.

Self-Health checks for Women 

Your everyday schedule should include self-health tests. Some of the things that you can check at home are as follows:

For skin - You can check for freckles, moles for change in size or color or any abnormalities in the shape or anything exceptional such as a rash or an itch or a pain.

Alcohol - People who skip for at least two days a week and have not more than two drinks a day have better long term health. 

Diet - A healthy and balanced diet enables one to work efficiently and even supports the general well being and health. 

Smoking - Smoking makes you prone to many diseases, namely, heart disease, stroke, lung disease, and thinning of bones. 

Weight - Have proper Bone Mass Index, or in other words, maintaining a healthy weight range prevents you from getting affected by long-term diseases, such as arthritis or diabetes.

Dental Care - To prevent  tooth decay, gum disease, and tooth loss, brushing and flossing your teeth regularly and eating a low-sugar diet is a must.

Physical Activity - To maintain good health, regular and sustained physical activity is essential. It is beneficial to your heart, bones, mental health, and can also help avoid many diseases.

Health check-up packages for women

Women’s health checkup packages usually include the following tests:

Breast Cancer Screening

Cervical Screening Test

STI Screening

Pregnancy check-up

Manipal Hospitals provide the best health check packages for women in many cities in India, including Bangalore, Delhi, Mangalore, Goa, Vijayawada, and Jaipur. You can avail of some of these packages online at a discounted price. They prove a wide range of check-up packages to choose from, according to the tests you want. You can even select the price range in which you require a health check-up package, and the available options will be displayed to you.

The price of the health check-up varies from a low of Rs.1200 to a high of around Rs.35000-40000. 

[what-you-leave]

how my STI screening nurse described taking the swab: “stick the swab up there as far as it’ll go, but don’t hurt yourself. then give it a good swoosh around in there, sing a song in your head for 20 seconds, and you should be done!”

[leighalanna]

I was discussing decriminalization vs legalization with someone recently and someone brought up the point that in many places, vaccines or medical exams like physicals are required for attending school or being hired in some fields (cont)

Do you think mandated vaccines and physicals are comparable to sti testing? Do you think those sort of required medical procedures are acceptable? Thanks for your thoughts Leigh Alanna!

They’re not at all comparable, for a few reasons. 

First: students and people working in health or food or childcare related fields (where there are sometimes, but not always, required medical exams or vaccination requirements) are not facing extreme, violent marginalization because of their jobs.  The interference of the state in the lives, healthcare and privacy of sex workers is just plain old not the same thing – there’s no history of arresting suspected day care attendants and forcing them to undergo dangerous and ineffective treatments or indeed rescue that involves indefinite incarceration in extremely inhumane conditions, the withholding of needed medical treatment, and murder resulting from those things.   The government simply cannot be trusted to treat people who trade sex as human beings, and so enshrining the government’s right to interfere in our healthcare is unacceptable.  (I would also point out that, in the US at least, vaccination requirements for healthcare employees vary state to state and actually have a lot less mandated treatment than you might expect.  You can check about your specific state here. So the idea that legalization with mandated STI screening is just asking sex workers to do what other workers do is also pretty much bunkum.)

Second, from a health and safety standpoint: The ability of the consumer to control their exposure risk is much, much greater when it comes to STI’s than those that people in other fields are vaccinated against, or examined for.  If I’m not vaccinated for whooping cough, and I’m sitting next to you on a bus (much less handling your food or giving you medical care), I can expose you to it just by coughing and ineffectively covering my mouth, or touching the same handrail that you touch, or any number of things that you can’t do anything about at all.  If I’m a sex worker, and I have an STI, then it’s very, very easy to control your risks as a consumer – you can be vaccinated for HPV, you can use latex or polyurethane condoms, dams and gloves, you can use lube and engage in lower risk sexual activities.  The protection that clients need from sex workers is not on a par with what’s needed from people working in other fields, where that kind of control is not possible.

Finally, mandated STI screenings for sex workers are simply not an effective way to slow the spread of STIs. Listen to what fabulous Australian sexwoblr (who largely work with mandatory screening requirements) have to say about it – it’s a nuisance that does nothing for the safety of clients or sex workers, while draining healthcare resources (I recommend you start with evolvingmatter, or bpd-charlie or sexworkinfo).   In environments that do have decriminalization (where sex workers are able to control their own healthcare), SWers have lower incidences of STIs than the general population (and are more likely to get screened more frequently on their own anyway, and obviously, more likely to insist on safer sex practices).  Let’s be straight up – it is emphatically not sex workers who are creating a demand for barrier-free transactional sex.  We, by and large, are much wiser to the risks we take and how to minimize them then our clientele and the general population are.  We’re not goddamn disease vectors here – you lot are. 

[alexrilyy]

The anonymous STD testing kits available through LT Labs are up to 99.8% accurate, are certified by ISO to surpass international medical standards and their HIV testing test kits are approved by USAID and meet WHO standards.