Every year, about 15 million Americans contract a sexually-transmitted disease. Some of these STDs are curable, some last a lifetime, others can be fatal. This program identifies the most common STDs, other than HIV, and their symptoms and treatments. It emphasizes the need and the means for preventing them; it also illustrates the social effects of STDs in its focus on a woman diagnosed with an STD who has to decide how to tell a future spouse, and an infected couple who are afraid to show their faces on screen because of the stigma attached to STDs. The need for better education in schools and at home is stressed, as well as the overriding need for STD prevention. (20 minutes)