Abstract:
As the world prepares to meet the challenges of an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals, WHO is developing three global health sector strategies to cover: HIV/AIDS – viral hepatitis – sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The strategies will cover 2016-2021 and will be finalized for consideration by the 69th World Health Assembly in 2016.
Globally Women frequently confront two concurrent reproductive health challenges: the need for both contraception and protection from sexually transmitted infections. Women and couples face multiple and overlapping sexual and reproductive health risks (SRH) world wide. It is estimated that 500 million cases of treatable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur annually. More than 30 bacterial, viral and parasitic pathogens are transmissible sexually. While sexually transmitted infections are mostly transmitted through sexual intercourse, transmission can occur also from mother to child during pregnancy and childbirth, and through blood products or tissue transfer, as well as occasionally through other nonsexual means. When untreated STI could have a significant health impact and may affect the quality of life to a greater extent.1 Read more……