*Treatment of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections in Resource-Limited Settings DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109930*

in developing countries show that a significant number of people with symptomatic STIs seek treatment in the informal or private sector, from traditional healers, unqualified practitioners, street drug vendors, and from pharmacists and unregulated private practitioners, and they will only attend formal public health services (with trained personnel) after alternative treatments have failed [17]. Self-medication is also widely practiced in most resource-limited settings [17–19]. The reasons for these aberrant behavior/practices include but are not limited to the convenience, seeming low cost, flexible payment arrangements, greater accessibility, and the more confidential, less judgmental, and less stigmatizing nature of the services provided by the practitioners in the informal and the largely unregulated private sector [17].

The operational protocol for the treatment of bacterial sexually transmitted infections in formal public health facilities in the resource-limited settings is the "Syndromic Case Management Approach" recommended by the WHO. And so, in this section, the etiologic diagnosis-based treatment guidelines by the Center for Disease Control will be considered first.

Common sexually transmitted bacterial infections include:
