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AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Treating sexually transmitted diseases

Treating sexually transmitted diseases

  • Controlling spread of STDs

Context

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) account for more than 250 million new cases of debilitating and sometimes fatal illness each year.

Broader

Improving reproductive health
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Financing essential clinical health services
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Treating diseases
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Eliminating infectious disease spread
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Controlling disease
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Combatting sexually transmitted diseases
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Narrower

Supporting people with AIDS
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Facilitates

Preventing further incidence of AIDS
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Controlling sexually transmitted diseases amongst young people
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Correcting human sexual disorders
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Facilitated by

Studying sexually transmitted diseases
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Problem

Syphilis
Excellent
Sexually transmitted diseases
Presentable

Value

Disease
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Reference

Ostrow, David G, et al: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Homosexual Men: diagnosis, treatment, and research
Margolis, Stephen: Sexually Transmitted Diseases: an annotated selective bibliography
World Health Organization: WHO Expert Committee on Venereal Diseases and Treponematoses: sixth report

Web link

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Cybernetics » Control
  • Medicine » Pathology
  • Medicine » Sexually transmitted diseases
    • Content quality
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    Language
    English
    Last update
    Aug 5, 2021