VIENNA, July 15 (Xinhua)
-- Despite a decline until the turn
of the century, sexually transmitted
diseases could occur more frequently
in the future, experts said at
a press conference for the STI
and AIDS World Congress 2013 in Vienna
on Monday.
Bacterial diseases
in this branch of medicine have
become increasingly resistant to antibiotics
- in particular "older" sexually transmitted
diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis
as well as fungal and viral
infections like HPV, Herpex simplex
and HIV.
According to World
Health Organization (WHO) estimates, around
448 million new cases of curable
sexually transmitted diseases occurred in
the 19 to 49-year-old age bracket each
year. Combined with HIV there is
an even higher potential for frequency
of transmission.
Congress Chair
Angelika Stary said in Austria the
resistance in treatment efforts to
gonorrhea could be observed, in
particular with cephalosporin antibiotics,
Austria Press Agency reported. Syphilis
is able to be treated better,
with normal penicillin still proving
to be an effective
treatment.
Also positive was
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
HIV/STD International Chief Thomas
Quinn. He said the success of
the fight against HIV/aids, for
which almost 10 million people are
currently in treatment, makes the goal
of a generation without the affliction
possible, though more prevention is
required, he added.
