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A Statistical Analysis Of Reported Cases Of Sexually Transmitted Disease
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Sexually transmitted diseases,
which is popularly known as STDS, and its effect is now the talk of the
day, town, and world wide, even in Nigeria. This disease is a very
strong disease that is caused by virus. This virus enters the body
through many means such as sexual intercourse, blood transfusion,
parental transmission. The main work of this virus is to weaken the
body mechanism known as Lymphocyte (White blood cell) making it possible
for any disease which enters the body to attack even more them
expected. Both the developed and the undeveloped countries of the
world, it is a great problem medically their incidence are steady
rising. From the available statistical data the evidence have been
showing alarming rate of sexually transmitted diseases every day as
mankind gets more civilized. The sexually transmitted diseases can be
categorized into three: the first category are referred to as the first
category are referred to as the first generation, these are gonorrhea,
syphilis, and chancroid. The second generation includes hympho
granuloma venereum and granuloma ingunale. The third generation which
is Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). These sexually
transmitted disease have become a major public health problem to most
countries of the world, including Nigeria on the account of their
frequency, their impact on maternal and infant health and their special
consequences as well as their economic cost in terms of health
expenditure and cost of productivity. It has a serious effect on
pregnancy, and new borns are seriously affected which may lead to
miscarriage, failure of development of new baby, blindness congenital
defects etc. The implication in woman such as pekvic inflammatory
disease ectopic pregnancy, infertility and chronic ill health are caused
by sexual transmitted diseases where the incidence of undiagnosed or
poor treated cases is very high.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The disease, sexually transmitted disease (STDS) is an old strong
disease that was discovered before the amalgamation of Nigeria in the
year 1914 by a great medical scientist known as lordchester field, in
the year 1985. this disease has killed very many paple, yet, as at that
time people doesn’t believe it, not until a good number of research
work was carried out in the laboratory and evidence showed that it is a
communicable disease that can be contracted from one person to another
through predominantly sexual contact; such as gonorrhea, syphilis
enters the body veins through blood and weakens or makes the white blood
cell known as lymphocyte inactive to attack the disease of the sexual
transmitted disease and this deadly disease will dry the victim to the
extent that you will be able to count the bones and extent that you will
be able to count the bones and ribs of the patient. But some people
are still doubting the existence of the deadly disease STDS while
statistical data table shows that 7,548 people was a victim within the
year of 1985 to 1990. But the recent data collected shows that 17,277
people were infected as it was recorded at the Federal Medical Centre
Umuahia. In addition, the above collected data will help the masses to
reduce the rate of sexual act and sexual promiscuity. The federal
ministry of health warns that total abstinence and mutual fidelity
remains the best protective measure for or against sexually transmitted
disease (STDS) such as gonorrhea, syphilis etc. That is why the
federal government supported the introduction of sex education and the
use of condom as a program in most of our media, such as newspaper,
radio, television etc. In order to educate the poor masses on the
subject matter and how to avoid contacting the deadly disease (STDS).
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The
rapid spreading of these deadly diseases (STDS) does not mean that both
the internal and external bodies’ even corporate organizations are not
working to remedy the issue. But we should not unemphasize the problem
facing the efforts. Some of this problems includes inadequate central
surveillance system from which all of us will be getting the information
that we carry and reply in our program, because what we get now in
Nigeria is information that is fragment not reconcilable. Even when
there is seeming different, there are not other third sources of
reference to cross check. Here the problem of finance contributed to
the collapse of the efforts been made. Take for instance, the latest
inhibitors introduced by Hoffmann – LaRoche of the Switzerland Eortovase
and Viracept cannot be obtained by poor countries like Nigeria.
We know that it will sound unbelievable even at the moment to some
people mainly the youths of today that kept adamant on the warnings and
dangers of being a prostitute, a homosexual, a Hetero Sexual and equally
having unprotected sexual intercourse. All that the World Health
Organization (WHO) had warned that partners should be truthful to
themselves and take preventive measures.
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
i. To know how far people have known about existence of the sexually transmitted disease.
ii. To know whether the rate at which male are infected is the same at which the females are infected.
iii.
To recommend preventive measures on how to avoid contacting the
sexually transmitted diseases and give appropriate treatment to avoid
rapid spread of the deadly disease.
iv. To specify the age group that is mostly affected.
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Finally, the objective of this study is in picking the types of
sexually transmitted diseases under study one by one and uses
statistical methods predicting what their incidence rate will be in the
year 2005 and 2006.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The entire project work/study talks about the full meaning of the STDS. The causes of the sexually transmitted diseases were found out to be virus and bacteria which can be transmitted from one person to another predominantly through sexual contact. The scope of the study was also special and federal medical center Umuahia (FMC) was used as a case study. One of the studies carried out by Dr. A.U. Mbanuso at the Federal Medical center Umuahia 1990 – 1993. His result showed that the ... Continue reading---
