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Transmitted Infections Reach Record Levels
new government is that they mustn't be tempted to cut
services and campaigns in sexual health, and ignore the
urgent need for statutory sex and relationships education
in schools," she said.
Sir Nick Partridge, chief executive of the Terrence
Higgins Trust, called it "staggering" that infections had
risen to almost half a million a year. "Until we improve
sex education and give extra support to young people,
they will continue to take avoidable risks with their sex
lives," he said.
The HPA figures show clearly that people aged under 25
are most affected by STIs. Among women, 73% of new
cases of gonorrhoea and 66% of new cases of genital
warts involved under-25s.
But half of all new diagnoses in men also involved under-
25s. That included 41% of male gonorrhoea diagnoses,
47% of male cases of genital warts and 69% of male
cases of chlamydia. STI diagnoses were also high among
men who have sex with men.
Genital warts and syphilis diagnoses have stabilised, the
figures show, but gonorrhoea is on the increase, which
raises a particular concern. Resistance to the main
antibiotic used to treat the infection, cefixime, rose from
0.1% in 2005 to 10.6% in 2009.
Professor Cathy Ison, a gonorrhoea expert at HPA's
centre for infections, said no new antibiotics were in the
pipeline to treat the infection once cefixime "is no good".
She estimated the antibiotic may be effective against
gonorrhoea for only another five years, although that time
could shorten if the bacteria develop new methods of
resistance.
The HPA is investigating combination therapies to treat
the bacteria and is encouraging pharmaceutical companies
to develop new drugs.
"Potentially this means that in the case of gonorrhoea,
practising safe sex may eventually be the only way of
controlling the infection if new antibiotic treatments
cannot be found," Ison said.
HPA advises that everyone should use a condom with
any new sexual partner and visit a sexual health clinic
after unsafe sex. People should also be screened for
chlamydia every year and whenever they get a new
partner, it says. Gay men should go for annual sexual
health screening, including an HIV test.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/25/sexuallytransmitted-infections-hit-record-high
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Superbug
since they must be desensitized — often in a hospital — and
then treated.
'Doomsday scenario'
There are alternatives should gonorrhea prove resistant to
the cephalosporins. While a sudden change in the gonorrhea
bacteria that leaves it completely resistant to the
cephalosporins would be “the doomsday scenario,” Hook
said, it’s more likely that the evolution will be gradual. So
following the old strategy of increasing doses as the
resistance increases will buy time. He also holds out hope
that pharmaceutical companies, which see antibiotic
development as unprofitable, will suddenly have a big
incentive to create new drugs should the cephalosporins lose
their effectiveness.
Meanwhile, the CDC is developing other strategies. It is
about to start a trial, operated through the National Institutes
of Health, to look at alternative therapies like giving patients
a one-two punch of an oral and an intramuscular injection
using two different classes of antibiotics at once.
Doctors already routinely treat female gonorrhea patients
with a different drug for Chlamydia on the assumption
they’ll be infected with it, too. Ideally, though, researchers
will find either a new drug, or prove an existing antibiotic
will work. Of course, it’s better to prevent an infection in the
first place. Being tested for STDs and using condoms, the
same techniques the military promoted among the troops to
fight “VD” back in World War II before penicillin, are still
the best bacterial STD fighters of all.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36229547/ns/health-sexual_health/
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When will Defilement of Young
Children End
By Cato N. Lund
April 25, 2011
Daily Monitor
I hear about a little girl of six being raped by a boy 10 years
older and I read in the papers about two primary school
girls, 11 and 13-years-old respectively, who have given birth
to babies. These terrible stories take my memory back to
August 2008 when Saturday Vision brought the results of a
survey that showed the precarious situation of girl-children
in Uganda.
The headline was just a number - 40,000 so many girls were
sexually abused by their teachers in upper primary per year.
Allowing for what happens in secondary schools and in the
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