Medicus, Vol. 12 No. 2_Spolne bolesti, 2003.
Pregledni rad
Importance of Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Zlatko Topalović
Sažetak
Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are
infectious diseases transmitted by any kind of sexual contact.
They are a global public health problem, due to epidemiological
distribution, manifold complications and enormous costs
required from the health system and individuals for their treatment.
According to the WHO data, in the world is annually registered
about 250 million of new STD cases, out of which 7 million
are persons newly infected with human immunodeficiency
virus, about 50 million infected with Chlamydia trachomatis,
and about 2.5 million of newly registered virus B hepatitis infections.
The most important complications of sexually transmitted
diseases are: the increased occurencee of cervical carcinoma,
tubal infertility, greater incidence of urinary infections
and their complications, increased frequency of male infertility
due to damaged spermatogenesis, as well as higher frequency
of late spontaneous abortions and premature births. Prevention
and control of sexually transmitted infections is based on
education of the young before entering sexual intercourses and
at the beginning of their sexual life, on detection of infected
asymptomatic persons, efficacious diagnostics and therapy of
infected symptomatic persons, as well as on identifying and
treating of all sexual partners of infected patients and immunization
by vaccination.
Ključne riječi
sexually transmitted diseases; prevention
Hrčak ID:
20587
URI
Datum izdavanja:
7.10.2003.
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