Sexually transmitted diseases continue to rise

Rates of sexually transmitted infections continue to rise.

Getting the upper hand in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS requires a much faster expansion in HIV prevention efforts, says a joint UNAIDS/World Health Organization report on the epidemic. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, a comprehensive prevention and treatment package " would avert 55% of new infections that otherwise would be expected to occur until 2020, " it says. " It is clear that a ...

The rise and fall of sexually transmitted diseases in Sweden.

Syphilis appeared in Sweden in 1497. It was recognized as a sexually transmitted disease that rapidly spread in the upper classes and later to the poor. It ravaged the country in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At that time the concept of venereal disease included all sexually transmitted diseases. Preventive measures were introduced. They were based on information, medical interventio...

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Sexually transmitted diseases in sexually abused children.

To determine the prevalence and pattern of sexually transmitted diseases among sexually abused children, we evaluated 532 victims under 14 years of age for the presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum. Twenty-five girls with vaginal discharge and six children with perineal skin lesions underwent more detailed microbiologic examination. Thirty-four infections were identified in 3...

Sexually transmitted diseases in Ukraine.

Letters epidemics occur (e.g., diphtheria in eastern Europe in the early and mid-1990s) (9). If needed, the World Health Organization can provide information on confirmed and uncon-firmed epidemics on a weekly basis. Travel and peacekeeping mission statistics share similarities. In Namibia, the South African Armed Forces had most often observed hepatitis (unspecified), with rare cases of tuberc...