Syphilis is the least of your think, if you have unprotected Sex. But the number of infections is increased, and also the combination of HIV and Syphilis appears more and more frequently.
Syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis – they all fall under the concept of sexually transmitted diseases, short STI (sexually transmitted infections) . With one of these venereal diseases have been infected in 2016 worldwide every day, a Million people. The information of the WHO, a total of approximately 376 million. Also Syphilis falls under the STIs. Defeated you is not for a long time.
Dangerous Carelessness
With the HIV prophylaxis and HIV treatment doctors have achieved in the last years, good results. People, for example, the prevention of a so-called Predisposition – short PrEP – take, are protected up to 90 percent against HIV infection. This helps, especially those who risk have a particularly high HIV, such as people with frequently changing sexual intercourse or drug addicts, the syringe.
And keep HIV-Infected strictly to their treatment with antiretroviral drugs HIV is often no longer contagious and has lost much of its terror. Many are asking yourself: What for a condom? Meanwhile, more and more people have unprotected Sex.
But there’s not just HIV. The risk of other sexually transmitted diseases to infect, could rise as a result of carelessness, warns Norbert Brockmeyer, head of the German centre for Sexual health, has discussed this week with colleagues, this dangerous Trend on the STI – and HIV conference in Vancouver.
Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of Syphilis
“The pill, which means on the one hand, a liberation from HIV, leads to the fact that we see increasingly other STIs. You can compare it to the 1970s, and with the anti-baby pill to protect against unwanted pregnancy. People are not used so often, a condom. Then, too, we have had a sharp increase in sexually transmitted diseases, especially Syphilis.”
Double-infected
Syphilis is not a disease out of the dark past. The symptoms are varied and the diagnosis is therefore often difficult. The disease progresses in different stages. You will not be treated, can be life-threatening. In the case of a double infection with Syphilis and HIV, the risk of the consequences comes to be serious, then even bigger. Syphilis can be well treated with antibiotics. A prerequisite is, of course, that it is detected early enough.
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The number of patients who are infected with both HIV as well as Syphilis, has increased in the last few years. People who wear the Syphilis-causative agent – the bacterium Treponema pallidum, can become infected more easily with HIV, and people wearing both strains, give you faster more. Men who have Sex with men (MSM) are most affected by this combined infection.
The HI-Virus has lost part of its horror
HIV and Syphilis
By an infection, an inflammation arising as always Brock, Meyer says. “This inflammation of immune cells, i.e. immune cells, are activated,” explains Brock Meyer. “These immune cells are then on their cell surface, many other receptors. Which can bind, for example, the HI-virus. It is the lock-and-key principle.” Between the individual organisms – such as Syphilis and HIV can occur via messenger substances, inter-actions.
Drug use
Not just about it is also, when drugs come into play. “The entire spectrum of different substances is for some people to have Sex. The consumer can increase the sexual experience for quite. But then the effect flattens out, and it must always be higher doses taken. This, in turn, leads to more carelessness in the prevention and is a never-ending spiral,” explains the physician.
Dangerous Mix
In the case of Syphilis it can cause a skin rash
There are different pathogen types. A seems to be changes in the nervous tissue and to cause in the brain. Scientists assume that people with HIV get increased neurological complications from Syphilis.
To get eye infections, it is often explained Brock Meyer. “You should check in HIV-Infected, in any case, what other pathogens are present and how we more efficiently can handle,” advises Brock Meyer.
Improved therapies, long-term theme in the research on HIV/AIDS and also in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. “The Central question is: How can we achieve healing, how it looks with a vaccine, and how we can HIV infection eliminate,” says Brockmeyer. These are some of the topics discussed at the International Aids conference from 21.-24. July would be out of Mexico in the centre of the discussions.
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