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Serious impact on the health of mother and baby
Doctors said that some sexually transmitted diseases can be passed from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding. These diseases have serious effects on the health of mothers and babies such as: syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B, gonorrhea, chlamydia…
In its latest research, the World Health Organization has shown that sexually transmitted diseases – syphilis alone caused about 200,000 stillbirths and neonatal deaths in 2016, making it one of the leading causes of death, leading cause of fetal death globally.
As we all know, one of the three main routes of HIV transmission is transmission from mother to child through the placenta during pregnancy, through blood and vaginal fluids during labor, and through milk during breastfeeding. The chance that a pregnant woman infected with HIV can transmit HIV to her baby is 20-30%. Pregnant women with HIV will turn AIDS faster than others.
For pregnant women, sexually transmitted diseases – gonorrhea can lead to premature birth, low birth weight, premature rupture of membranes, infection of the membranes, miscarriage, and neonatal gonorrhea. The disease can be passed from mother to baby during vaginal delivery. Read more
