INTRODUCTION Control of sexually transmitted infection (STI) remains challenging in most regions; Latin America (LA) is no exception. The Latin American and Caribbean Association for the Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ALAC-ITS) implemented a survey to collect information on STI programmes in the region. This paper highlights some important sexual behavioural trends from recently pu...

INTRODUCTION The emergence of drug resistance among bacterial, viral and protozoan sexually transmitted infections (STI) in recent years threatens to undermine global STI control programmes. While this review will focus on microbiological resistance determinants for two important bacterial STI pathogens, namely Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum, it is important to appreciate that a n...

One of the possible ways to ensure future food needs of an increasing world population involves the better water use through the development of crop varieties which need less water and are more tolerant to drought. In order to study the response of twenty landraces of bread wheat to drought stress, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under t...

BACKGROUND Although number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) reported in STI surveillance increased rapidly for women in Japan during the 1990s, the sexual behavior of women potentially at risk of STI infection remains unknown. METHODS In order to determine the demographic and behavioral characteristics of non-sex worker (SW) females attending STI clinics, female attendees (n = 145), ...

The Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI-571 is effective therapy for stable phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients, but the majority of CML blast-crisis patients that respond to STI-571 relapse because of reactivation of Bcr-Abl signaling. Mutations of Thr-315 in the Abl kinase domain to Ile (T315I) were previously described in STI-571-resistant patients and likely cause resistance from st...

This paper describes a conceptual framework for understanding the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in the evolving sustainable development challenge. It develops the key concepts behind STI and draws linkages between STI and the sustainable development goals, identifying some of the key challenges in strengthening STI capacities in ESCAP Member States. Lastly it sets out a pathw...

A new, systematic approach to the synthesis of sti®ness by springs is presented using screw (spatial vector) algebra. The space of solutions is fully characterized for all sti®nesses realizable by springs. The main result shows that a rank r sti®ness can always be synthesized by r springs. Further, a sti®ness can be synthesized by an arbitrarily large number of springs greater than r: Algorithm...

OBJECTIVES To 1) create a space where men who have sex with men (MSM) feel comfortable accessing sexually transmitted infection/human immunodeficiency virus (STI/HIV) testing, and 2) reduce STI/HIV incidence. PARTICIPANTS Gay men in Ottawa and its surrounding regions. SETTING A preponderance of diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections and HIV continue to occur among MSM. Meanwhile, othe...