How are STIs transmitted?
Genital warts, genital herpes, syphilis, pubic lice (crabs), and scabies can be transmitted by direct contact, sexual or otherwise, with the lesions of an infected person. You can also contract pubic lice and scabies simply by contact with contaminated sheets, clothes or towels. Gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital warts, hepatitis B, genital herpes, syphilis, and HIV can be transmitted during vaginal, anal or oral sexual intercourse without a condom with an infected person. HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis can also be transmitted when people share equipment that has already been used to prepare drugs for injection (cocaine, heroin, steroids, etc). When they inject drugs, users also risk injecting HIV, hepatitis B or C viruses, or the syphilis virus directly into their blood. If needles and equipment used for tattooing or piercing are not new or sterilised, they can also transmit HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis. Hepatitis A can be transmitted through, among other things, oro-anal (mo
