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Nairobians diagnosed with STIs have sharply increased, doctors reveal

Women are more likely to seek treatment for STIs than men, doctors say. [File, Standard]

Reproductive health doctors in Nairobi, Kenya say they have noticed an increase in the number of patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

This comes after a recent KEMRI study indicated that patients in Western Kenya had increasingly been diagnosed with gonorrhea and chlamydia.

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