Northern Saskatchewan combatting rise in sexually-transmitted infections
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The medical health officer with Saskatchewan's Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority says there's a variety of reasons for the current increase in sexually transmitted infections.
Northern communities in Saskatchewan are seeing a spike in sexually-transmitted infections (STIs)like chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Nnamdi Ndubuka, medical health officer with Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority, said there was an 87 per cent increase in gonorrhea between 2020 and 2022, and a 25 per jump in chlamydia between 2021 and 2022.
He said there’s a wide variety of reasons for the increase in sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.
Poverty, the impacts of residential schools, systemic racism and the lack of access to quality health-care in the northern part of the province all factor into the increased numbers, Ndubuka said.
He said people having unprotected sex and having multiple partners increase their exposure to gonorrhea, chlamydia and other STIs.
Ndubuka noted they are working on a number of initiatives to combat this rise in infections.
“Number one is increasing education and awareness about the nature of the disease and how it could be acquired or transmitted,” Nbuduka said.
They’ve been working with partners like the Prince Albert Grand Council to build targeted messaging for the population through mediums like social media and radio stations to educate the public.
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