The World Health Organization report

The World health organization report indicates that one million people are infected with Sexually transmitted diseases/ infections daily around the world. Common STDs like Gonorrhea, syphilis and Chlamydia are a major health problem globally. Ian Askew who heads the WHO’s reproductive research and the health department said that they have affected million of people depriving their quality of life and more so leading to serious illnesses and death at times.

The World Health Organization estimates that 131 million, 78 million and 5-6 million people are infected with these Common STDs - Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis respectively each year around the globe. Teodora Wi, a WHO medical officer, said that this number is as a result of the over one million people who contract these diseases every day. The WHO has indicated that the successful treatment of these three diseases caused by bacteria is now a hassle due to antibiotic resistance. The drug resistance has increased rapidly in the present times minimizing the available treatment options according to the United Nations agency. The main causes of the antibiotic resistance are over prescription of antibiotics by the physicians or improper intake of the dose by the patients.

Injection methods: Into the buttock or the thigh

Multidrug-resistant strains gonorrhea that has failed to respond to the already available antibiotics has been detected.  Antibiotic resistance in Chlamydia and syphilis also exist thou in less common cases. The three sexually transmitted diseases can result in serious problems if not diagnosed and treated on time.  Such consequences include:

  • Pelvic inflammatory diseases
  • Risk f ectopic pregnancies in women
  • Higher chances of stillbirths, miscarriages and death of the newborn babies
  • Increased chances of contracting HIV among the people living with the three diseases
  • Lack of treatment of gonorrhea and Chlamydia can result in infertility in both men and women.

The world health organization on Tuesday presented fresh guidelines to help rein in resistance.  These guidelines primary aim is to ensure that the doctors prescribe the best and right dies of antibiotics to patients when treating a particular disease. Askew from the World Health Organization said that the national health countries of each country will now monitor the resistance level of the infections as a way of helping reduce their spread.

For instances in cases to do with gonorrhea, the WHO recommends a resistance study by the local health authorities for them to identify the resistance patterns. The health officials are also supposed to advise the doctors on prescribing antibiotics with the least resistance so as to be effective. In the meantime, WHO has a particular antibiotic recommend for syphilis. The benzathine penicillin antibiotic can either be injected into the muscled thigh or the buttock when treating syphilis. However, the use of condom as a form of protection remains the most ideal and efficient approach to protect against the sexually transmitted infections.

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