Female genital ulcer is a disease that affects a large number of women, and its etiologic diagnosis can be difficult. The disease may increase the risk of acquiring HIV. Genital ulcer may be present in sexually transmitted diseases (STD)--syphilis, chancroid, genital herpes, donovanosis, lymphogranuloma venereum; and other non-STD disorders (NSTD)--Behçet's syndrome, pemphigus, Crohn's disease,...

OBJECTIVE To determine risk factors associated with the failure of syndromic management of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among women seeking treatment in primary healthcare centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS Women with symptomatic STDs seeking care in a health centre were prospectively enrolled. A total of 259 women were interviewed and underwent clinical examination; 106 were en...

Heterosexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to occur readily in Africa but less commonly in North America and Europe. We conducted a case-control study among men attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in Nairobi to determine the prevalence of HIV infection and the risk factors involved. HIV antibody was detected in 11.2 percent of 340 men who enroll...

I narrate these cases merely as rare experience in practice, wishing, meantime, to avoid discussion of the nature of the disease. In accordance with general practice I designate it lupus, yet histological investigation by skilled colleagues shows that it has not the structural peculiarities of most examples of the characteristic and well-known disease in other parts of the body. The name of lup...

OBJECTIVE To assess the health and economic burden of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related diseases (cervical cancer, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 1/2/3, and genital warts) in Singapore over a period of 25 years beginning in 2008. METHODS Incidence-based modeling was used to estimate the incidence cases and associated economic burden, with the assumption that age-stratified incidenc...

INTRODUCTION Few studies on the prevalence of male sexual diseases are currently available due to difficult application of observational studies or andrological disease prevention campaigns on large series of apparently healthy subjects. The medical check-up linked to compulsory military service represented in Italy a valid tool for epidemiological and observational study for 18 year old boys f...

BACKGROUND Human papillomavirus (HPV) has proven to be the cause of several severe clinical conditions on the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, oropharynx and penis. Several studies have assessed the costs of cervical lesions, cervical cancer (CC), and genital warts. However, few have been done in Africa and none in Swaziland. Cost analysis is critical in providing useful information for economic ev...

serovars are sexually transmissible. Infection by the D-K serovars affects children of all ages but is uncommon in the prepubertal period. It ranges from perinatal and neonatal infection acquired from the mother, to prepubertal infection as a consequence of long term carriage or voluntary or involuntary sexual intercourse, to sexually transmitted adolescent infection. Infection by the LGV serov...