Listen you ignorant motherfuckers 1 WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters shaping the health research agenda setting norms and standards articulating evidence based policy options providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends 2 An infection is growth of pathogenic microorganisms in the body whether or not body function is impaired Someone with an STI will not necessarily have symptoms or signs that some kind of pathogen is in the body and might not even feel sick Someone with an STI can unknowing pass on an infection if they do not have any signs or symptoms they are probably not aware they are carrying an infection and may not take the proper precautions of protecting their partner 3 Disease is any change from a state of health impaired body function The disease state is associated with the manifestation of symptoms such as fever pain aches etc due to failure of immune system to control in the first round of the growth of infectious agent s These people don t run around all day looking for euphemisms The use of the word infection instead of disease is based on real data on a real stigma on a real definition The main most important point being Someone with an STI will not necessarily have symptoms or signs that some kind of pathogen is in the body and might not even feel sick Compare this with HIV and AIDS Do we use both terms interchangeably It should be stated very clearly in the intro that an infection doesn t imply symptoms Maybe then this article won t be completely fucking useless PS There s no reason for this or any article to be locked The unknown unknown shitholes do far more damage than any vandal In fact the name of this article was changed 6 years ago because of some anti establishment piece of shit didn t know the difference between an infection and disease Look at the archive for that idiot a registered user Someone an unregistered person with a little sense This entire article should be a case study of why this projects fails and continues to fail If I had to take a wild intutive guess I would guess that most people will not read the entire article but look for very important information quickly then leave The project should be built around them I m amazed by the astonishing ignorance revealed in the archives of this article With the rationale of a word being familiar being used to justify against it s change jesus fucking chirst Change this article to STI or better yet make two separate articles just like with HIV and AIDS Sometimes the medicine is a little bitter