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STD Screening Strategies: Urine Not Enough in MSM

Urine screening alone is not a reliable method of finding gonorrhea and chlamydia infections in young men who have sex with men (MSM). Triple screening—pharyngeal, rectal, and genital—improves chlamydia and gonorrhea detection, particularly in an at-risk population.

Published
18 June 2013
From
Internal Medicine News
Sex workers
HIV Prevention For Female Sex Workers Dramatically Reduces Sexually Transmitted Infections In India

Thirteen years of peer-based, HIV prevention programs for female sex workers reduced both HIV and syphilis in young pregnant women from southern India.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Medical Daily
Testing policies and guidelines
ECDC report: Public health benefits of partner notification for sexually transmitted infections and HIV

The report shows that patient referral is the preferred approach to partner notification for all STI in most EU/EEA countries. Provider referral was used in some countries, most often for syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HIV.

Published
14 June 2013
From
ECDC
Behaviour change interventions
South Africa: Anal sex stigma leads to problems in HIV fight

The stigma around anal sex in South Africa was hampering the fight against HIV and Aids, Health4Men programme manager Glenn de Swardt said during a recent discussion. The discussion was about the dangerous gaps in HIV prevention created by narrow assumptions of what constituted sex, and in particular anal sex.

Published
13 June 2013
From
Independent Online
Sexually transmitted infections
Syphilis infection rates in B.C. almost double in 2012

Public health officials in B.C. are calling on sexually active gay and bisexual men to regularly get tested for syphilis after the number of new infections in the province almost doubled in 2012.

Published
12 June 2013
From
Vancouver Sun
Sexually transmitted infections
Gonorrhea Drug Choices Dwindling, but Trend May Be Slowed

The last antibiotics effective against Neisseria gonorrhea are losing their strength, but certain prescribing practices may slow that trend, according to an analysis of data from the Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme (GRASP) in the United Kingdom.

Published
11 June 2013
From
Medscape (requires registration)
HIV and sex
HIV Superinfection: More Questions Than Answers

Studies have reported HIV superinfection incidence rates of between 0 and 7.7 percent per year, but understanding of the phenomenon is hazy.

Published
10 June 2013
From
AIDSMeds
HIV prevention policy
High rates of gonorrhoea among people living with HIV in the US

Combining HIV and gonorrhoea surveillance databases has revealed a high prevalence of gonorrhoea among people living with HIV in four US settings. Published in the online

Published
06 June 2013
By
Michael Carter
Sexually transmitted infections
UNITED STATES: Three High Tech Tools to Test STDs

To counter high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), commercial and nonprofit innovators have developed solutions for tech-savvy users to stay healthy or share their STI status with partners.

Published
05 June 2013
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
Sexually transmitted infections
2012: half a million sexually transmitted infections in England

There were just under half a million new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2012, according to data released by Public Health England today. As in previous

Published
05 June 2013
By
Roger Pebody
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