Module 7 - Sexual Health

Question 1

What is gender binary?

Answer 1

The spectrum based classification of gender into the two categories of either man or woman based on biological sex

Question 2

Gender identity

Answer 2

An inner sense of oneself as man, woman, masculine, feminine, neither, both or fluid

Question 3

Genderqueer/non-binary gender

Answer 3

A term used to describe gender identity that doesn’t conform to traditional gender norms

Question 4

What is chancroid?

Answer 4

A rare form of genital ulceration

Question 5

How is chancroid treated?

Answer 5

Antibiotics, contact tracing, no sexual contact for 7 days after treatment

Question 6

Although more frequently asymptomatic, the following symptoms are of… ( in women)
- dysuria, vaginal discharge, pelvic pain, intermenstrual/postcoital bleeding

Answer 6

Chlamydia

Question 7

Dysuria, urethral discharge, testicular pain

Answer 7

Chlamydia

Question 8

Female complications of chlamydia

Answer 8

PID, infertility, ectopic pregnancy

Question 9

Chlamydia testing in males

Answer 9

First pass urine, ano rectal swab

Question 10

Chlamydia testing in women

Answer 10

Endocervical swab most commonly

Question 11

Ectoparasites

Answer 11

Scabies and pubic lice

Question 12

Genital warts

Answer 12

Human papilloma virus

Question 13

Donovanosis

Answer 13

Genital ulceration most commonly found in PNG, South Africa, India, South America

Question 14

Hepatitis A

Answer 14

An acute infection of the liver spread through contaminated food/water or through sexual transmission

Question 15

How is hepatitis B spread

Answer 15

Mother to child, parenteral exposure, sexual or household contact

Question 16

What does HIV causes?

Answer 16

Chronic immune deficiency leasing to AIDS if untreated

Question 17

Alcohol and drug use, sex with multiple or new partners, condomless sex, victims of DV and rape are all risk factors for

Answer 17

STIs

Question 18

What can untreated STIs lead to?

Answer 18

Infertility, organ damage, certain types of cancer or death

Question 19

Which STIs can lead to PID if untreated

Answer 19

Gonorrhoea, chlamydia

Question 20

PID can lead to…

Answer 20

Chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, infertility

Question 21

Priority populations for STIs include

Answer 21

Young people (15-29), indigenous people, MSM, sex workers, culturally and linguistically diverse, travellers, people in custodial settings

Question 22

How are HPV and cervical cancer related?

Answer 22

If the body doesn’t clear a HPV infection, it can cause changes to cells in the cervix which may develop into cancer

Question 23

How long does untreated HPV usually take to turn into cervical cancer

Answer 23

10-15 hrs

Question 24

HPV treatment

Answer 24

The immune system will clear it most of the time. There is no treatment.