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Article: Controlling sexually transmitted diseases. (includes related articles)
- Article from:
- Population Reports
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
- Author:
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While AIDS seizes the headlines, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) create devastation of their own. In women STDs can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, causing lifelong pain, infertility, and ectopic pregnancy, which can kill. Children are born with blinding eye infections. Men are left infertile. People die of advanced stages of syphilis. Furthermore, STDs multiply the transmissibility of HIV, the AIDS virus, as much as ninefold.
STDs are nearly as common as malaria--more than 250 million new cases each year, at least one million of which will be HIV infection. Some developing-country family planning, antenatal, and maternal and child health ...