Assignment: Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Assignment: Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
All of the following required elements are met:
· Presents STD summary in a logical, meaningful, and understandable sequence.
· Summary post includes 3 evidence- based action plans for the STD that student was assigned (may include two peer recommendations but at least one action plan must be the student’s own plan)
· Each action plan must include an evidence based in-text citation
· Includes at least one opposition or barrier to each action plan
· Includes a summary of your peers’ responses to your initial post
(5 required elements)
In 2017, a total of 30,644 cases of primary and secondary syphilis were reported in the United States, yielding a rate of 9.5 cases per 100,000 population (CDC, 2018). According to the CDC (2018), this rate signifies a 10.5% increase compared with 2016 (8.6 cases per 100,000 population). Syphilis has a high prevalence among certain racial/ethnic groups, as well as in other groups, such as adolescents, sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), and sexually abused women (Hollier, 2018). Syphilis is transmitted through direct contact with an ulcerative lesion, or chancre which appears during the primary stage (most infectious) of syphilis (Hollier, 2018). Patients with this infection may seek medical treatment for signs and/or symptoms of primary syphilis (chancre/ulcer), or secondary syphilis (diffuse rash on palms and soles) (Hollier, 2018). On the other hand, patients may be completely asymptomatic and only diagnosed on routine screening.
Yonglin suggested to me one prevention strategy from the CDC called the “Talk, Test, Treat” method that has been suggested by the CDC is the “Talk, Test, Treat” method. Talking involves discussing sexual health history, testing involves screening for syphilis. The CDC recommends screening all sexually active men who have sex with men at least once a year, and more frequently if they are at-risk for infection. Pregnant women should be tested at their first prenatal visit, and at-risk women should be rescreened in their third trimester and again at delivery to prevent congenital syphilis. Lastly, patients need to be treated with benzathine penicillin G who test positive for syphilis.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
