Global HIV, viral hepatitis epidemics, and Sexually Transmitted Infections continue to pose significant public health challenges.
According to the National AIDS and STDs Control Program, there are about three million reported annual cases of STIs mainly caused by chlamydia, N. gonorrhoea, and trichomonas vaginalis in Nigeria.
STIs pose a myriad of complications in the short, medium, and long term, with women being particularly vulnerable to their effects.
Ghebreyesus said, “New syphilis cases among adults aged 15-49 years increased by nearly one million in 2022, reaching eight million. And there were 230,000 syphilis-related deaths.
“The highest increases occurred in the Region for the Americas and the African Region. New data also show an increase in multi-resistant gonorrhoea.
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