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Gonorrhoea develops resistance to antibiotics, new drugs urgently needed – WHO
Punch Newspapers / Olusola Babarinsa / 6 minutes ago

New drugs are urgently needed to treat gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease threatening to veer out of control as it develops resistance to existing antibiotics, the UN’s health agency said Friday.

Nearly 80 million people are infected with the disease every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement.

Among these, doctors are finding more and more cases of infection untreatable by all known antibiotics.

“To control gonorrhoea, we need new tools and systems for better prevention, treatment, earlier diagnosis,” said the WHO’s director of antimicrobial resistance, Marc Sprenger.

“We need new antibiotics, as well as rapid, accurate, point-of-care diagnostic tests.”

Gonorrhoea, also called “the clap”, is a disease caused by a bacteria spread through vaginal, oral and anal sex.

Untreated, it can cause painful pelvic inflammation in women, and infertility in both genders. In extreme cases, the bacteria can spread in the blood to cause life-threatening infections in other parts of the body.

It can be passed directly from a pregnant woman to her baby and cause blindness in the unborn child.

Gonorrhoea resistance to penicillin and tetracycline, a common broad-spectrum antibiotic, first emerged in the 1970s in Asia, spreading to the rest of the world during the early 1980s, according to the WHO.

Resistance to the next level antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, developed in the mid-2000s.

A third generation of drugs called cephalosporins — orally-administered cefixime and injectable ceftriaxone — then came into use.

– Tip of the iceberg –

“But resistance to cefixime — and more rarely to ceftriaxone — has now been reported in more than 50 countries,” said the WHO.

These are so-called multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains.

“The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are particularly smart,” said WHO official Teodora Wi. “Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them.”

Most countries reporting a rise in MDR gonorrhoea are in the developed world, where surveillance is best.

“These cases may just be the tip of the iceberg, since systems to diagnose and report untreatable infections are lacking in lower income countries where gonorrhoea is actually more common,” said Wi.

As a result, the agency last year updated its treatment recommendations, urging doctors to use two antibiotics combined: ceftriaxone and azithromycin.

“The R & D (research and development) pipeline for gonorrhoea is relatively empty, with only three new candidate drugs in various stages of clinical development,” said the agency.

Creating new gonorrhoea drugs is not economically attractive for pharmaceutical companies — the treatments are taken for a short period of time, unlike chronic medicines, and the drug range must be continuously expanded as resistance develops.

Bacteria can become resistant to drugs when people take incorrect doses of antibiotics. Resistant strains can also be contracted directly from animals, water and air, or other people.

When the most common antibiotics fail to work, more expensive types must be tried, resulting in longer illness and treatment, often in hospital.

Scientists have long been warning of a future without working antibiotics, a world in which people die from diseases easily treatable today.

AFP

http://punchng.com/gonorrhoea-develops-resistance-to-antibiotics-new-drugs-urgently-needed-who/

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Buhari needs to try out AGBO SELERU right away before we start seeking the services of miracle workers which is usually the last resort when all has been tried to no avail.

I strongly believe that Lai Muhammad is reading this piece of information right now.

Where the Bush?

farem:
She doesn't know because this invite is too
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Did she apply there?

If she didn't, then it's fake.

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My turn to comment on this dicey and delicate issues.

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Are these bööbs Or plastic bags

Even in Europe?

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Stop asking for financial assistance, you are rich - European Union declares
Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 / moments ago

- Nigeria has been reeling in economic recession since President Muhammadu Buhari took over its leadership

- The European Union, through Michel Arrion, declares that Nigeria is rich and does not need increased financial assistance

The European Union (EU) ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michel Arrion, has declared Nigeria as a rich country and as such does not need an increased financial assistance.

Arrion reportedly said this in Abuja while delivering a lecture organised by the IBB Golf Club, with the theme: ‘40 years of European Union in Nigeria: Lessons learned and the way forward’.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ambassador who said that EU was not promising further assistance to Nigeria however said that the country remains EU key partner in view of the role it plays in global affairs.


Michel Arrion spoke in Abuja on Thursday, June 29

He stressed that the union would scale up its efforts towards the country’s institutional, political and economic development for a more prosperous future, but said Nigeria could not be described as poor because it has enough resources to meet its developmental needs.

NAIJ.com learnt that Arrion called for a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth to ensure growth and stability and unleash its enormous economic potentials.

READ ALSO: Fayose says Buhari is on life-support, audio message on Sallah day is fake (Video)

The report said the envoy explained that the combined aide to Nigeria was about ten per cent of the country’s annual budget.

He said the Official Development Assistance (ODA) flow in Nigeria is about 2.5 billion dollars yearly, which corresponds roughly to about 10 per cent of the federal budget (N7.3 trillion or $24 billion).

“We are not offering more financial support, we are proposing more political and policy dialogue, technical assistance, capacity building, training, transfer of technology.

“We also proposing more advocacies for more private investments and other innovative sources of funding,” Arrion said while calling for improvement in tax collection to finance the development of the country.

Arrion said Nigeria must find alternative funding to ODA including improved tax collection which must be improved at least five times more and also spend better.

“Nigeria collects about N5.5 trillion or 18 billion dollars per year.

“About 10 million people (10 per cent of adult population) are registered for personal income tax (half of them in Lagos).

“The rate of VAT compliance by registered entities is about 12 per cent. The rate is lower for corporate income tax nine per cent,” he said while quoting Price Water Cooper (PwC 2016).

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The envoy said Nigeria must attract more foreign investment, five times more, to reach the level of Angola or Vietnam for instance and put in place more and better Public Private Partnerships.

The report added that Arrion said the evolution of vibrant relationship of equal partners between Nigeria and the EU was founded on shares values and aspirations and mutual trust.

The EU in its 40 years of engagement with Nigeria has identified development priorities, funded projects to stimulate the Nigeria’s economy, reduce hunger and disease, Arrion said.

NAIJ.com earlier reported that twenty eight Nigerians have been deported from the United Kingdom (UK) for reportedly breaching immigration laws in that country.

Watch this video as Rotimi Amaechi speaks about the Muhammadu Buhari administration:

https://www.naij.com/1112527-you-longer-financial-assistance-eu-tells-nigeria.html

For how long will she remain 16years?

Chai


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Na wao

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Na wao. Delta state again? Which level?

If her past will be a problem in the future, why don't you forget all about the relationship? Besides there will be a time when quarrels can happen in your marriage and you will be tempted to use her past against her and nobody wants that at all.

Evans the celebrity kidnapper has taken over the headlines.

I'm sure that he is a police officer posing as a school teacher describing the length and breadth of sambisa forrest.

Another scammer living the elegant life style while owing creditors everywhere.

itsJude:
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All this broke people wen they book ticket 6 months ahead so dem go get cheap ones , forming posh look him fake tshirt self spits

Bro itsJude, we know that they are not the first, but at least give the couple a break joor. Abi your gf just annoy you?

HML to the most romantic couple trending on NL.