“Between 2012 and 2014, gonorrhea doubled in France and syphilis increased by 50%”, just declared in the world François Bourdillon, director of the future Public Health France agency (born from the merger of the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education and the Institute for Public Health Surveillance).
To try to alert patients to this spread of STIs, the National Union of Dermatologists-Venereologists (SNDV), which yesterday organized a “National Information and Prevention Day”, has therefore set up two tools:
• a free application MSTRisk, available on the App store and Google play, which addresses STIs in a very graphic and educational way through symptoms. When opening the application, the user directly accesses a selection of 12 symptoms characteristic of different infections (sores, fever, burns, etc.) and the selection of a symptom directly leads to a simplified presentation of possible infections. and their dangerousness.
• a website MSTprevention.com which presents, in a language accessible to all, the various diseases, their mode of transmission, the symptoms and the treatments.
Each of these tools refers to the directory of dermatologists by locality.
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