Sentence examples for transmitted illness from inspiring English sources

Prevention campaigns continue to lag, often because of the stigma attached to the disease or officials' squeamishness about talking openly about sexually transmitted illness.

While contact tracing is undoubtedly incomplete, most infected patients have transmitted illness to few other people.

Participants mobilize their own understandings of psychiatric genetics, and, with this, piece together an interpretative frame through which they retrospectively 'diagnose' the behaviours and life decisions of forebears as indicative of the genetically transmitted illness of schizophrenia.

He has done almost nothing to reduce the huge social stigma that exists about dying from a sexually transmitted illness, or having one.

FP, family planning; MCH/OPD, maternal and child health/outpatient department; PNC, postnatal care; STI, sexually transmitted illness.

FP, family planning; FTE, full time equivalency; PITC, provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling; PNC, postnatal care; STI, sexually transmitted illness; VCT, voluntary HIV counselling and testing.

These cost savings are related to preventing unplanned pregnancies and decreasing the spread of sexually transmitted illnesses.

This reading is only strengthened by the fact that in one of his earliest pictures, the diabolical Shivers (1975), Cronenberg addressed the fear of sexually transmitted illnesses, showing how the primal fervor of desire and disease upends the sterile and bourgeois enclave of a ritzy apartment complex.

Women and their partners also receive treatment for sexually transmitted illnesses.

A majority agreed that HIV and AIDS can be prevented by having sexually transmitted illnesses treated, using condoms or abstaining.

Almost a quarter of young men have never heard of AIDS, and two-thirds of young men and almost three-quarters of young women have no knowledge of symptoms of sexually transmitted illnesses.