Deadly Disease Worse than HIV that Condoms Can’t Stop!

Deadly Disease Worse than HIV that Condoms Can’t Stop!

At a meeting of cancer specialists at the University of Nairobi last week, reproductive health expert, Nelly Mugo, said that even as we take protective measures using condoms against most STIs including HIV/Aids, the rubber sheaths cannot provide 100 per cent protection against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). “Condoms offer 60 per cent of HPV thus the virus can spread through skin-to-skin contact with infected areas of the skin not covered by the condom such as the scro*tum, an*us, or vu*lva,” Dr Mugo said.The 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, released last week, shows that male condoms are the most popular method among sexually active unmar
ried women.

Unmarried men too seem to prefer condoms as the popular method to protect against STIs. But for a virus whose disease has no symptoms, the inefficacy of condoms allows for faster and wider spread, especially amongst those with multiple s*x partners. The only 100 per cent effective way to prevent HPV transmission is abstinence from any s*xual contact, including oral, an*l, and vaginal s*x. See also: Morning after:That ‘oops’ moment when women’s emergency pills backfire Since abstinence may not be a realistic option, Dr Mugo advises remaining monogamous while in a relationship, vaccination and screening for women. Women can also pass viruses without having any symptoms.

But the chance of females infecting men is estimated at less than five per cent of the rates of male-to-female transmission. There are more than 100 types of HPV and about 13 of these are cancer causing, with HPV types 16 and 18 causing approximately 70 per cent of all cervical cancers worldwide. Sadly, it’s physically difficult to tell whether your partner has the HPV virus unless they have private part warts, yet those who do not have visible signs can also spread the virus. The other interesting aspect of this particular virus is that you do not need to have s8*x for it to be passed on from one person to another. The virus is found in the flora of the man-hood, scrotum, vag1na, vulva@, or anus of a person who has the HPV. One can get infected through kissing or touching an infected s8*x organs or through oral s3’x.

Since cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among adult women, in the developing world, and the second most common cancer among women worldwide, preventive measures include getting a pap smear for women and/or getting vaccinated. Better still, it’s important that you be honest with your partner about your s3’x history. Immunizing all girls before becoming sexually active ideally aged nine to 13 years in order to lower the risk of HPV took off in Kenya under a pilot project in Kitui County in 2013, targeting 20,000 girls
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  • Rushanda Tiffina DuQuesnay

    Unlike HIV/AIDS and Herpes Simplex Virus/HSV, HPV is reversable in most healthy young people with a strong immune system. You many not even know you have HPV for 3 months to years after exposure. Detection can be difficult as screenings are not routine, those infected can usually go symptomless, and the presence of warts, especially in women, can be difficult to detect if the warts are tiny and/or internal. HPV is not a constantly shedding virus and twarts must be present in which case would make them highky contagious. Whereas HSV is constantly shedding requiring no outward symptoms for transmission. Men often have little to no symptoms or negative outcomes. 90% of young people will be exposed to the virus in their lifetime it’s as common as HSV 1 which produces cold sores. Abstinence is unrealistic, young men and women should be vaccinatedone to prevent the majority of transmission risk as well as practicing safe sex and healthy communication with their partner(s). A monogamous sexual relationship

    • Evelyn Khelama

      No, sister. Abstinence is NOT unrealistic, if you want to live. It should be encouraged among the young until you are ready for a committed monogamous relationship. And it depends of the form of HSV,which is constantly mutating. There is a reason for that I can’t get into here. Suffice it to say if we don’t change our views towards how often we engage in random sex and with whom, and open our eyes to the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases sweeping the globe and especially Africa, we are headed for extinction. I don’t say that lightly. I’ve been a researcher in the field of epidemiology and specifically STD’s for over 25 years now. Currently finishing a book encompassing my research. The evidence I’ve found is horrifying and the future of Africa and many other so-called under-developing countries look bleak if a health revolution does not take place soon.

      • Rushanda Tiffina DuQuesnay

        I’ve practiced abstinence for the past year after leaving a relationship I thought was monogamous. The young people of today are harder to convince that sex is something one can wait for. When I was a virgin until the age of 21 people thought there was something wrong with me! I ask why is that an issue today? We live in a hyper sexualized society, especially in America, abstinence would be difficult to maintain unless our views on the matter change. I’m aware of the mutationsame the virus goes through and it highly unfortunate that even with efforts to prevent transmission it basically a losing game for, what I think is, the majority who have more than one partner. Even those who maintain “monogamous reltions

        • Evelyn Khelama

          You are on point in many areas. Oh my dear sister, if we in the black community knew the true history behind the origins of the mainly sexually transmitted diseases, evolving out of viral infection, that are specific to black people in particular and women especially, it would terrify many. The origin of most of these named viruses and the anomalies evolving out of them, would shock and awe most who are clueless that what you see is not the whole truth. And the story behind it is more complex than I can get into here. Suffice it to say that in the very near future, abstinence will be the only way many will survive. The sexual revolution which began largely in the 70’s and exploded in the 80’s was neither random nor stochastic. It was orchestrated and served a purpose and it continues to. We are destroying ourselves because of it. Males face extinction because of it and females rampant infertility. This is no joke. If we don’t wake up, we are a society in peril and black people who are at the bottom of the food chain by design will be the first to vanish. Stay tuned. More to come. Peace.