Alternative Designs and Methods for Venereal Disease Control Programs1

Administrative methods for the prevention and control of venereal disease in East Germany.

Vaginal chemoprophylaxis in the reduction of reinfection in women with gonorrhoea. Clinical evaluation of the effectiveness of a vaginal contraceptive.

A clinical investigation was undertaken to determine if chemoprophylaxis in the form of a contraceptive pessary would reduce the rate of reinfection with gonorrhoea in 1245 female patients attending a venereal disease clinic. After the introduction of the pessary the reinfection rate over a 16-week period was 19% compared with 40% in the control clinic patients. It was also found that women cou...

Critical evaluation of the venereal disease control campaign in Poland 1970-76.

A comprehensive campaign to control venereal diseases was undertaken in Poland in 1970. During the eight-year period of the campaign a significant decrease in the morbidity rate of gonorrhoea and syphilis was achieved. The number of cases of primary and secondary syphilis decreased by 85% and the number of cases of gonorrhoea by 30%. This paper presents the main guidelines of the campaign and a...

Horvitz-Thompson estimator of population mean under inverse sampling designs

Inverse sampling design is generally considered to be appropriate technique when the population is divided into two subpopulations, one of which contains only few units. In this paper, we derive the Horvitz-Thompson estimator for the population mean under inverse sampling designs, where subpopulation sizes are known. We then introduce an alternative unbiased estimator, corresponding to post-st...

Venereal disease in Australia in the post-war decade, 1945-55.

During the post-war decade the control of venereal disease in Australia has followed a pattern somewhat similar to that in other informed countries overseas. Full advantage has been taken of improved methods of treatment and in administrative organization, and results compare favourably with those reported from abroad. In New South Wales the Division of Social Hygiene has, on account of the dec...