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Blog / STDs / 30 Oct 2019

Medical advancements for STDs

Sexually transmitted diseases impose an enormous burden of morbidity and mortality in many developing countries, both directly through their impact on reproductive and child health, and indirectly through their role in facilitating the sexual transmission of HIV infection. Yet it is only in recent years that these diseases have been accorded any priority by national ministries of health or by the international community.

General treatment for treating STDs:

Sexually transmitted diseases or infections caused by parasites or bacteria can be treated with antibiotics. These antibiotics are most often given orally. However, sometimes they are injected or applied directly to the affected area.

The treatments, complications, and outcomes for viral STDs depend on the particular virus. Treatments can reduce the symptoms and the progression of most of these infections. For instance, prescriptions are accessible to restrain the recurrence and seriousness of genital herpes episodes while decreasing the hazard that the infection will be passed on to other individuals.

Getting tested and treated for STIs is especially important for pregnant women because some STIs may be passed on during pregnancy or delivery. Testing women for these STIs early in their pregnancy is important so that steps can be taken to help ensure delivery of a healthy infant.

Medical advancement for treating HIV:

People with HIV need to take unique antiretroviral drugs that control the measure of infection they convey. These drugs called highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART can help people live longer, healthier lives and can prevent onward transmission of HIV to others. If a lady with HIV ends up pregnant, these drugs additionally can decrease the opportunity that her embryo or newborn child will get the disease.

In people who do not have HIV, the infection can be prevented by many tools, including abstaining from sex, limiting the number of sexual partners, never sharing needles, and using condoms appropriately. Persons who may be at very high risk of HIV infection may be able to obtain HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). It consists of the HIV medication called Truvada, from their doctor to take every day so they can prevent HIV infection. PrEP will not work if it is not taken consistently.

Precautionary measures and control:

Whatever the infection, and regardless of how quickly the symptoms resolve after beginning treatment, the infected person and their partner must take all of the medicine prescribed by the medicinal services supplier to guarantee that the STI is treated. Likewise, they should follow health care provider recommendations about how long to abstain from sex after the treatment is completed to avoid passing the infection back and forth.

Help can be avoided in those with HIV contamination by the early inception of antiretroviral treatment. Since chlamydia and gonorrhea frequently happen together, individuals who have one contamination are regularly treated for both by their medicinal services supplier.

To avoid wellbeing inconveniences and sexual transmission, treatment ought to be given immediately to all people testing constructive for contamination, and ongoing sexual accomplices ought to be treated simultaneously to anticipate reinfection.

Prevention is better than cure! ALWAYS

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