Public-health policy is inconsistent in its approach to the sexually transmitted disease human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Nearly every health agency has politicized the reporting, finding, and contacting of HIV cases. There is also no consistency among the various state health departments and the various federal health agencies. Until we have a uniform health policy that treats HIV infection...

OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence of sexually transmitted organisms and other genital organisms in potentially sexually abused children. DESIGN Prospective study of children attending an inner London department of community paediatrics for evaluation of possible sexual abuse. SUBJECTS Children under 16 referred for evaluation of possible sexual abuse. OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of se...

Treponema Pallidum, causative agent of syphilis and HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) co-infection is not uncommon now as both are sexually transmitted and risk factors are the same. Syphilitic ulcers facilitate the transmission of HIV and increase the viral load among HIV positive patients. Studies demonstrated that individuals with sexually transmitted infections (STI) are 35 times more like...

Basically, all sexually transmitted diseases occurring in adults can be transmitted to children. Patterns of transmission are as follows: intrauterine, perinatal, by sexual abuse, by voluntary sexual contact, by accidental autoinoculation or heterinoculation, or indirect transmission. In children between 2 and 10 years of age, sexual abuse is first in possible ways of transmission. Taking into ...

For this issue's Commentary column, Peter L. Tenore, MD, discusses risk for infection with HIV or acquisition of sexually transmitted diseases associated with the use of the Internet to find sexual partners and presents results of an informal survey to determine whether Internet sites used to find sexual partners provide warnings about sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. He also calls for th...

This article presents an overview of the history of medical and public health responses to syphilis in the 20th-century United States and briefly evaluates the relevance and significance of these approaches for the AIDS epidemic. The parallels are numerous: they relate to science, public health, civil liberties, and social attitudes concerning sexually transmitted infection. The strengths and l...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are infections that are mainly transmitted from person-to-person through sexual contact[1]. Almost 30 types of causative bacteria, viruses and parasites have been isolated, which are responsible for multiple sexually transmissible diseases such as gonorrhea, chlamydial infection, syphilis, trichomoniasis, chancroid, genital herpes, human immunodeficiency v...

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...

Accepted for publication 28 April 1993 Abstract Objective-To determine independent risks with predictive value for specific sexually transmitted diseases in women. Design-A prospective study of reported sexual behaviour in patients who presented for screening and diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases. Setting-A genitourinary medicine clinic at the West London Hospital. Subjects.-1025 conse...