Gonorrhea, syphilis resistant to Penicillin
Monday, March 30, 2009 from MONITOR ONLINE
Gonorrhea and syphilis, the sexually transmitted infections that have for long been treated and cured using penicillin have become resistant to the medicine, Health Ministry officials have confirmed.
The Director General of Health Services, Dr Sam Zaramba, confirmed last Friday that both gonorrhea and syphilis had become resistant to the first line medicine for their treatment.
“It is true the penicillin which we imported to treat sexually transmitted infections like gonorrhea have become ineffective and we are in the process of introducing the second line medicines,” Dr Zaramba said.
He was addressing the press during the launch of the Medicine Transparency Alliance in Kampala.
Dr Zaramba said a number of diseases are increasingly becoming resistant to the widely used medicines mainly because of misuse.
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