35154 STI Control in Africa – Where are we now?

Wednesday, June 11, 2014: 3:40 PM
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Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, MBChB, PhD, School of Medical Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Africa is the content hardest hit with STI and over the past many years there have been efforts by countries and supporting partners to put in interventions for this. Tagging on the back of the HIV epidemic, a lot was done. With dwindling resources for developing country support for HIV interventions, what is the state of STI control on the continent?