Sexual health

Sexual health

Enjoying emotional, physical, and social well-being in regard to one’s sexuality, including free and responsible sexual expression that enriches one’s personal and social life and fulfills one’s sexual rights. Disorders in sexual health can impact a person’s physical and emotional health, as well as his or her relationships and self-image.

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Sexual health

hepatitis B virus (HBV)

Health care; Sexual health

An infection that can be sexually transmitted and may cause severe liver disease and death.

sexually transmitted infection (STI)

Health care; Sexual health

An infection that is usually passed from one person to another during sexual or intimate contact. Also called STD.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Health care; Sexual health

An infection that may be transmitted through sexual or intimate contact or childbirth and that may cause permanent disability, including hearing loss and mental retardation for infants and blindness ...

cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Health care; Sexual health

trichomoniasis

Health care; Sexual health

An infection that most often occurs in a woman’s vagina. A man also can get the infection in the urethra (the tube that carries urine out of the body), as well as in the prostate. It is caused by a ...