Uganda: Doctors Grapple With Drug-Resistant STDs

28 September 2009

Kampala — SEXUALLY transmitted diseases (STDs) no longer respond well to traditional antibiotics like penicillins and tetracyclines, doctors have said.

Speaking at a three-day training workshop for health journalists recently, Dr. Dan Kaye, from the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Makerere University Medical School, said the prevalence of STDs was rising with increasing resistance to available treatments.

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