Live Health Chat: Living with STDs, April 1st

Living with STDs - Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatments
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 03:00PM - 04:00PM (EST)

Register for upcoming health chats: http://www.medhelp.org/health_chats/list_upcoming

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are often difficult for patients to discuss with their family and friends, their partner, and even their doctor. The stigma associated with having an STD can prevent patients from getting vital answers to their questions. If either you or your partner has been recently diagnsed with an STD or has been living with it for years and you have unaswered questions, join Dr. H. Hunter Handsfield for an hour-long chat covering the diagnosis, symptoms and treatments related to STDS.

As the former Director of the STD Control Program for Public Health and on the Board of Directors of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections and American Social Health Association, Dr. Handsfield is a renowned expert in the study of STDs. In this live health chat, Dr. Handsfieldwill answer your questions about syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, hepatitis, genital warts/human papillomavirus (HPV), chancroid, pubic lice and scabies, trichomoniasis, nongonoccal urethritis (NGU), cervicitis, molluscum contagiosum, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), other vaginal infections and less common STDs.

Note: Questions about HIV will not be permitted during this chat. If you have a question about HIV prevention, please join Dr. Handsfield on April 7th for an HIV Prevention Live Chat.

Register for this free health chat now: http://www.medhelp.org/health_chats/list_upcoming

Note: This health chat was originally scheduled for March 31st, but has been rescheduled due to a conflict. Please be sure to update your calendars if you've already registered for this chat.

[Med Help]

Thank you all for participating in the chat and a special thanks to Dr. Handsfield. We had a great chat discussing STDs and hope it was helpful to those of you who attended. If you missed the chat, you can read the transcripts here:

http://www.medhelp.org/health_chats/archive/6

The chat was extremely popular and we did not have time to get to all the questions. If you did not receive an answer, you can always post your question in the STDs forum here:

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/STDs/show/116

-MedHelp