Don't have sex until your treatment is complete. You can protect yourself. Abstinence, which is no sexual contact, is your best defense. Having sex with only one uninfected partner who only has sex with you is also safe. Condoms are necessary to reduce your chances of contacting these diseases.
Condoms act as a barrier device to prevent mucous and blood to blood contact.
This very painful disease presents as blisters that turn into open sores. Gonorrhea, trichomonas, and syphilis occur less frequently and can be cured with antibiotics. Hepatitis B attacks the liver and can lead to the serious diseases of cirrhosis and cancer. Condoms cost 10 cents each at Health Service Pharmacy. Sometimes free samples are available STD screening is available at Health Service for very little cost.