2. Department of HIV/AIDS
Infecciones de transmisión sexual
Enfermedades infecciosas
transmitidas por la actividad
sexual y, a veces, por
transfusiones sanguíneas y de la
madre al niño.
3. Department of HIV/AIDS
Causadas por más de 20
microorganismos
La mayoríam se
presentan como
– Secreción uretral
– Úlcera Genital
– Secreción Vaginal
– Adenopatías
Infecciones de transmisión sexual
Gonorrea
Clamisiasis
Herpes genital
Condiloma acuminado
Verruga genital
Tricomoniasis
Candidiasis
Sifilñis
Chancro
VIH/SIDA
10. Department of HIV/AIDS
Estimated new cases of curable STI* among adults, 1999
Western Europe
17 million
Western Europe
17 million
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
22 million
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
22 million
North Africa & Middle East
10 million
North Africa & Middle East
10 million
South & South-East Asia
151 million
South & South-East Asia
151 million
Australasia
1 million
Australasia
1 million
Sub-Saharan Africa
69 million
Sub-Saharan Africa
69 million
* gonorrhoea, chlamydial infection, syphilis and trichomoniasis
North America
14 million
North America
14 million
Latin America &
The Caribbean
38 million
Latin America &
The Caribbean
38 million
East Asia & Pacific
18 million
East Asia & Pacific
18 million
Global total: 340 million
11. Department of HIV/AIDS
Syphilis 2000
Low in Western Europe
Epidemic in
Eastern Europe and
NIS
In Asia and
Pacific:High rates in
Cambodia (4%),
Papua New Guinea
(3.5%) and South
Pacific (8%)
Increase in Mongolia
Prevalence of 1.3% in Morocco
In Africa prevalence form
2.5% to 17.4% in PW
In USA declining
rates since 1992
Congenital syphilis
still a problem
among minorities
12. Department of HIV/AIDS
Chlamydia 2000
The higher prevalence
female adolescents (24.1%-
27%),
Europe, prevalence
in PW, from 2.7% in
Italy to 8% in Iceland
In Asia and Western Pacific,
prevalence in PW, 5.7% in
Thailand up to 17% in India,
One study in a rural
population in Papua New
Guinea showed a prevalence
rate of 26%
Latin America and Caribbean, prevalence rates
from 1.9% amongst teenager in Chile, 2.1%,
PW, in Brazil, and 12.2% attendees FP in
Jamaica
USA: most common
notifiable infectious
disease
(3 million/year)
Low prevalence and incidence
rates in the Nordic countries,
following a wide scale
screening programmes in the
1970s
Africa, prevalence in PW :
from 6% in Tanzania to 13% in
Cape Verde,
13. Department of HIV/AIDS
Gonorrhoea 2000
In Western Europe, a
significant decline
Outbraks and increase in
London and ParisIn USA, between
1981 and 1996 the
incidence decreased
71.3%. Rates
amongst blacks were
35% higher
Sweden: trends in the incidence
of gonorrhoea showed a steady
decline However, in 1997 the
number of new cases was 17%
higher than in 1996. First increase
since 1976!
In Africa, prevalence rates in
OW: 3.1% in Central African
Republic and 7.8% in South
Africa
An important
increased in
gonorrhoea
rates has been
seen in Eastern
Europe, in the
NIS
Western Pacific:
prevalence rates
for gonorrhoea
(3% or greater)
are found in
Cambodia and
Papua New
Guinea
Australia, notification of
gonoccocal infection
doubled since 1991.
