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When Emeka (not his real name) began showing symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI), specifically a burning sensation during urination, he felt embarrassed and, like many others, sought a quick remedy from a patent medicine vendor who gave him a broad-spectrum antibiotic.<\/p>\n
However, the treatment did not work and the infection persisted. When he finally visited a hospital, the doctor struggled to manage his condition as the antibiotics that should have been effective no longer worked….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> When Emeka (not his real name) began showing symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI), specifically a burning sensation during urination, he felt embarrassed and, like many others, sought a quick remedy from a patent medicine vendor who gave him a broad-spectrum antibiotic. However, the treatment did not work and the infection persisted. When he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,13327,257,4687,393,5098,7779,254,6056,45106,52709],"class_list":["post-211604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-infections","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sexually","tag-shows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study","tag-transmitted","tag-untreatable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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