You may have heard about HPV testing and self-swabbing to collect the sample. Does that work as well? Here are the ins and outs of this newer option.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) worldwide. HPV impacts people of all sexes. Nearly 80% of women will contract at least one type in their lifetime.

As a child, she was brutally cut. As an adult, she underwent hours of surgery to reconstruct what was taken from her. As a mother, she vowed to protect her daughter from female genital cutting. As a ...

Herpes on the anus, or anal herpes, is a type of genital herpes that can cause symptoms including painful blisters, fever, or flu-like symptoms. "Genital herpes" refers to herpes that affects the anus ...

What Are The Symptoms of Genital Herpes? Genital herpes most often appears as one or more blisters on or around the genitals or rectum. When these blisters burst they leave the tender sores known as ...

Republicans at the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill that would allow health care providers to “visually or physically examine a minor child” for the purpose of identifying their “biological sex ...

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Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Around one in every five people aged below 50 around the world is infected with incurable genital herpes, researchers have newly estimated. According to a new paper in the journal Sexually Transmitted ...

There are a variety of treatment options for genital warts (condyloma acuminata), a skin condition caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Visible genital warts can go away on their own within a few ...

Quest Diagnostics has launched a self-collection option for testing for vaginitis and similar genital tract infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis and Mycoplasma genitalium. The test ...

At eight years old, Fatou Baldeh was told she would be attending a party at her uncle’s house to celebrate girls in her local community in The Gambia. Excited, she picked out a new outfit and braided ...