STDS .

In Forsyth County, the already high cases of STD’s are increasing even more, including aids. Recent reports from the NC division of Public Health found that gonorrhea, syphilis and Chlamydia have increased rapidly from January to September in 2009. Much more than it did In January to September in 2007. Forsyth is the only county to increase in all four categories. The health department found this out, when discovering new cases of syphilis in August, which by the way is already increasing at a rapid rate. Syphilis is a bacterial infection spread through sexual contact that can produce rashes or sores in the groin area. The suspect person can only find out if their infected is by taking a blood. Left untreated, the disease can cause damage to the heart and central nervous system. All the STD’s that are increasing in the population are curable accept AIDS. Local and state health officials began an outreach effort in various communities trying to slow down the rate and suggested the population to get tested for any type of STD’s and many agreed. That was on August 29, 2009 and since then the rate is still increasing, so officials don’t know what else to do next.
I personally think the officials should try harder to reach out to the community to help slow down this deadly rate. Sending speakers to schools to speak about STD’s, AIDS and protected sex is a way to help also, informing people that STD’s can be very deadly and need to take responsibly as a sexually active person to protect themselves and others. Also informing people about the increasing rate would get a lot of people’s attention. No I think this will fully stop the transmission of AIDS and STD’s but I honestly do think it will help.