Wellness
HIV, Substance Abuse, and Health Services

Maine Center on Deafness, 68 Bishop Street, Portland, Maine 04103 (207)797-7656 tty/v or toll free at 1-800-639-3884 tty/v.

Did You Know?

In North America, 1 in 4 new HIV infections occur in people between the ages of 13 and 20.

HIV and AIDS killed more than 3 million last year, and every year it kills more than the previous year.

Risk of getting HIV from blood transfusion or blood products is now less than 1 in 600,000.

Smokers with the HIV virus develop full-blown AIDS 200 times faster than non-smokers.
http://www.hivaidssearch.com/facts/

Need Help?

NATIONAL STD HOTLINE - Confidential toll free hotline for STD information and referrals. (800) 227-8922

PORTLAND STD CLINIC
103 India Street
874-8466
Web: http://www.ci.portland.me.us

PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER
Homeless HIC Case Management Program
874-6560
Web: www.cdmcomm.com/psrc.html
 

Take the STD Awareness Quiz:

1. Women who have had an STD are at increased risk for:
a) Infertility  
b) HIV/AIDS 
c) Getting another STD.

 2. Which of the following bacterial STDs is the most common?
 a) Scabies 
b) Chlamydia 
c) Trichomoniasis

3. Which STD besides HIV/AIDS can be detected by a blood test?
 a) Gonorrhea 
b) PID 
c) Syphilis

4. Experts now recommend that sexually active young people be immunized against what STD:
 a) Chlamydia 
b) Herpes 
c) Hepatitis B

 5. Which of the following STDs can be cured?
 a) Herpes 
b) Gonorrhea 
c) Genital warts

 6. You may be at increased risk for HIV/AIDS if:
 a) You have eaten food prepared by a person infected with HIV.
b) You have given blood at a blood bank or blood collection center.
c) You have had many sex partners in the last 10 years.

7. The best form of protection against contracting STDs during sex is:
 a) Spermicides 
b) Condoms & spermicide, used correctly all the time 
c) Birth control pills
 

For more information http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp
or MCD.


Answers:
1. a
2. b
3. c
4. c
5. b
6. c
7. b