The emergence of drug resistance among bacterial, viral and protozoan sexually transmitted infections (STI) in recent years threatens to undermine global sexually transmitted infections control programmes. Antimicrobial resistance is resistance of an organism to an antimicrobial drug that was originally effective for treatment of infections caused by it (Fluit et al. 2001). The resistant micro-organisms are able to withstand attack by the antimicrobial drugs thereby making the standard treatment ineffective and the infection persistent increasing the risk of spread to others.
Antimicrobial resistance is fast becoming the greatest global threat. New resistant mechanisms emerge and spread globally. Patients with infections caused by drug resistant bacteria are generally at increased risk of worse clinical outcomes and death and consume more health-care resources than patients infected with the same bacteria that are not resistant (Byarugaba 2005). For example: treatment failures have been reported in 10 countries due to resistance of treatments of last resort for gonorrhea (3rd generation cephalosporin). This is a warning sign because gonorrhea may soon become untreatable as no vaccines or new drugs are in development. Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat because:
· It kills
· It hampers the control of infectious diseases
· It increases the costs of health care
· It jeopardizes health care gains to society
· Present situation
WHO reported in their 2014 global surveillance that antibiotic resistance is no longer a prediction for the future, but a threat living with us now which if no urgent, coordinated action is taken, the world is heading towards a post antibiotic era in which common infections and minor injuries which were once treatable over the decades can now become lethal.
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