eli5: Why did we go from calling sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to sexually transmitted infections (STIs)?

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eli5: Why did we go from calling sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to sexually transmitted infections (STIs)?

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When I learned they first changed it I was taught that it was because a lot of them are curable or avoidable making them an infection rather than a disease that is incurable

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