The Christ Church High School of Lahore, Pakistan, The Girls Preparatory School of Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA The St. Alban's College of Pretoria, South Africa, and The Walker School of Marietta, Georgia, USA are cooperating in the program of the National Association of Independent Schools, "Challenge 20/20 - 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them." The primary topic for this group is Global Infectious Diseases.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Gonorrhea - GPS Discussion Group
The GPS Gonorrhea Discussion Group will post information and discussion here based on instructions provided by Erin Oliver.
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Introduction--Eliza Background--Quette and Janell Impacts--Mary, Meagan and Amelia Causes--Perri and Sorrell Solutions--Monica and Courtney Treatments--Heather and Alana Practice--Bill and Kamri Conclusion--Everyone
Treatments: As of early 2006, there's now a fluorquinolone-resistant gonorrhea that's rapdily speading across the United States. The fluoroquinolone antibiotics are no longer recommended for treatment and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are continually updating their website when a new antibiotic is discovered.
Gonorrhea can be treated with simple antibiotics, although Chlamydia is often treated at the same time. The antibiotics most used are Ceftriaxone or Cefixime (currently not availabe in the US). ALternate treatments are Spectinomycin (not available in the US) or Single-dose cephalosporin.
I am researching gonorrhea and its conjunction with socioeconomic status. Gonorrhea impacts all classes, but is diagnosed later or left untreated due to lack of medical care.
Amelia mentioned that gonorrhea is more prevalent in black females. Rates of gonorrhea have increased in black populations among adolescent females in the southern region of the United States.
Parental unemployment and a single-parent family were associated with an increased risk of gonorrhea. According to the study “Socioeconomic Status and Self-reported Gonorrhea among African American Female Adolescents” by Drs. Crosby, Harrington, Davies, ET. All, these individuals with a single-parent family and parental unemployment live in neighborhoods were there is a lack of screening and treatment services. In the poorer neighborhoods disease is more likely to be maintained and increase.
Gonorrhea, one of the most widespread of the STDs, is caused my the bacterium Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, some strains of which are resistant to treatment by penicillin as well as the other drugs of choice. The organism itself is quite fragile and cannot survive long enough outside the body to be transmitted from one person to another via infected toilet seats, clothing or household utensils. It is readily killed by sunlight, drying, or ultraviolet light.
Gonorrhea is transmitted very efficiently. It can be spread by merely contacting the fluids of an infected person as well as by sexual contact. A person runs a 60-90% chance of contracting the disease after just one sexual encounter with an infected person.
I am researching solutions to prevent Gonorrhea spread.
There are the obvious solutions to not obtaining Gonorrhea, like abstaining from sex and by using condoms. However, not everyone is aware or educated about prevention. Therefore, if trying to educate a group of about the issue, one must take in the following accounts: 1. You must consider the audience—where they live, what they can afford, and how they feel about the subject
2. Determine the health communication objectives—for example, simply to raise awareness about the STD – a bad example, simply saying “use condoms,” because that may not get through to the audience
3. Get people involved in the education that has a significant role in the community, so that more people are likely to listen and take note
4. Find out why current efforts are not working to stop the STD and strategies that have not been thought of yet
Gonorrhea best thrives off of warm and moist areas in the body such as the cervix, urinary tract, mouth and rectum. It' most common in the cervix but can spread to other places such as the eyes.
In women, gonorrhea can spread to the ovaries and fallopian tubes resulting in PID (pelvic inflamatory disease) which may result in infertility. It can also get in the blood stream and infect the joints, heart valves, or the brain.
A women infected by gonorrhea may give the infection to her baby as it passes through the birth canal during pregnancy.
The development of FDT (field-delivered therapy) was used to improve treatment for gonorrhea as well as chlamydia. FTD is a single dosed therapy protcol which includes the uses of these things: 1. Single-dose medication packets Chlamydia (Azithromycin, 1 g) Gonorrhea (Cefixime, 400 mg)
2. 3 × 5 medication card Medication name Lot number Expiration
3. Medication instructions
4. Dosing cup (to mix medication)
5. 8 oz bottle of water
6. Consent forms (English and Spanish)
7. STD fact sheets (English, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian) Condoms
In the beginning, people misunderstood Gonorrhea and labeled it as a mysterious disease, until it was treated along with other STD’s. The term Gonorrhea originates from the Greek word “gono” which means “seed” and “rrhea” which means “to flow.” This can be accredited to, “the flow of discharge from the penis caused by gonorrhea in men (Helping Gonorrhea 1).”
The treatment for gonorrhea is usually very effective. By taking the prescribed antibiotics of Cefixime, Ceftriaxone, Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin, and Doxycycline, a patient should recover from the STD. The treatment becomes ineffective when the patient isn’t persistent about taking the medications (they stop taking them when they feel better). The most common reason that a patient’s gonorrhea would return would be re-infection, rather than treatment failure.
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Gonorrhea Assignments
Introduction--Eliza
Background--Quette and Janell
Impacts--Mary, Meagan and Amelia
Causes--Perri and Sorrell
Solutions--Monica and Courtney
Treatments--Heather and Alana
Practice--Bill and Kamri
Conclusion--Everyone
Treatments: As of early 2006, there's now a fluorquinolone-resistant gonorrhea that's rapdily speading across the United States. The fluoroquinolone antibiotics are no longer recommended for treatment and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are continually updating their website when a new antibiotic is discovered.
Gonorrhea can be treated with simple antibiotics, although Chlamydia is often treated at the same time. The antibiotics most used are Ceftriaxone or Cefixime (currently not availabe in the US). ALternate treatments are Spectinomycin (not available in the US) or Single-dose cephalosporin.
Amelia
I am working on gonorrhea statistics specifically age and gender cases and rates.
Drawing just a few conclusions from the data I have seen so far, gonorrhea is most prominent in the 20-24 year old Black, non-hispanic population.
In general gonorrhea rates run a little bit higher in women than men.
I am researching gonorrhea and its conjunction with socioeconomic status. Gonorrhea impacts all classes, but is diagnosed later or left untreated due to lack of medical care.
Amelia mentioned that gonorrhea is more prevalent in black females. Rates of gonorrhea have increased in black populations among adolescent females in the southern region of the United States.
Parental unemployment and a single-parent family were associated with an increased risk of gonorrhea. According to the study “Socioeconomic Status and Self-reported Gonorrhea among African American Female Adolescents” by Drs. Crosby, Harrington, Davies, ET. All, these individuals with a single-parent family and parental unemployment live in neighborhoods were there is a lack of screening and treatment services. In the poorer neighborhoods disease is more likely to be maintained and increase.
Gonorrhea, one of the most widespread of the STDs, is caused my the bacterium Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, some strains of which are resistant to treatment by penicillin as well as the other drugs of choice. The organism itself is quite fragile and cannot survive long enough outside the body to be transmitted from one person to another via infected toilet seats, clothing or household utensils. It is readily killed by sunlight, drying, or ultraviolet light.
Gonorrhea is transmitted very efficiently. It can be spread by merely contacting the fluids of an infected person as well as by sexual contact. A person runs a 60-90% chance of contracting the disease after just one sexual encounter with an infected person.
I am researching solutions to prevent Gonorrhea spread.
There are the obvious solutions to not obtaining Gonorrhea, like abstaining from sex and by using condoms. However, not everyone is aware or educated about prevention. Therefore, if trying to educate a group of about the issue, one must take in the following accounts:
1. You must consider the audience—where they live, what they can afford, and how they feel about the subject
2. Determine the health communication objectives—for example, simply to raise awareness about the STD – a bad example, simply saying “use condoms,” because that may not get through to the audience
3. Get people involved in the education that has a significant role in the community, so that more people are likely to listen and take note
4. Find out why current efforts are not working to stop the STD and strategies that have not been thought of yet
Gonorrhea best thrives off of warm and moist areas in the body such as the cervix, urinary tract, mouth and rectum. It' most common in the cervix but can spread to other places such as the eyes.
In women, gonorrhea can spread to the ovaries and fallopian tubes resulting in PID (pelvic inflamatory disease) which may result in infertility. It can also get in the blood stream and infect the joints, heart valves, or the brain.
A women infected by gonorrhea may give the infection to her baby as it passes through the birth canal during pregnancy.
I am working on the practices for gonorrhea and I found a really good website. Monica this site my be of some good use to you as well.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1447859
The development of FDT (field-delivered therapy) was used to improve treatment for gonorrhea as well as chlamydia. FTD is a single dosed therapy protcol which includes the uses of these things:
1. Single-dose medication packets
Chlamydia (Azithromycin, 1 g)
Gonorrhea (Cefixime, 400 mg)
2. 3 × 5 medication card
Medication name
Lot number
Expiration
3. Medication instructions
4. Dosing cup (to mix medication)
5. 8 oz bottle of water
6. Consent forms (English and Spanish)
7. STD fact sheets (English, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian)
Condoms
8. Field staff identification badge
9. Stationery
10. Cellular phone
In the beginning, people misunderstood Gonorrhea and labeled it as a mysterious disease, until it was treated along with other STD’s. The term Gonorrhea originates from the Greek word “gono” which means “seed” and “rrhea” which means “to flow.” This can be accredited to, “the flow of discharge from the penis caused by gonorrhea in men (Helping Gonorrhea 1).”
The treatment for gonorrhea is usually very effective. By taking the prescribed antibiotics of Cefixime, Ceftriaxone, Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin, and Doxycycline, a patient should recover from the STD. The treatment becomes ineffective when the patient isn’t persistent about taking the medications (they stop taking them when they feel better). The most common reason that a patient’s gonorrhea would return would be re-infection, rather than treatment failure.
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