Introduction A lack of awareness, social skills, access to services or education? Do people suffer from these or ‘It won’t happen to me syndrome?’ There is much speculation about why over the last few years, the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK, and in particular in the North West, has changed. We are now witnessing dramatic increases in the number of reported cases...

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...

DESCRIPTION Update of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) 2008 recommendation on behavioral counseling interventions to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs). METHODS The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on behavioral counseling for sexual risk reduction in primary care, including interventions targeting risky sexual behaviors to prevent STIs (alone or in combination with ot...

Cultural and ethnic identity and folk beliefs play a decisive role in perceptions, attitudes and practices regarding health care and illness. Such beliefs and practices of a community may have an influence on the causes and transmission of diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases. The purpose of the study on which this article is based, was to describe cultural beliefs of the Vhavenda ...

background : people with sexually transmitted infections (stis) constitute the high-risk group for transmission of hiv. the present study was planned to estimate the prevalence of hiv and syphilis in patients attending sti clinic and to assess the socio-demographic determinants of the study subjects. methods : a cross sectional descriptive study of three-month duration was undertaken from janua...

conclusions surveys and opinion polls are valuable research tools and feedback mechanisms for administrative decisions; they should not be discredited by obtrusive questioning or asking for private information, with commercial or other purposes. context many studies on alcohol misuse and related topics such as the use of condoms are based on surveys. however, some surveys are not free from bias...

results: in total, 8.5% of all subjects were positive (11% of symptomatic and 6% of asymptomatic men). statistical analysis revealed an association between condom usage as a variable and infection in asymptomatic group (p ≤ 0.05). conclusions: findings of this study show that chlamydial infection screening especially in males with urogenital symptoms is necessary (at least in tehran) and we rec...

Despite efforts to control the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), these infections are still highly prevalent in the developing world, especially in Africa where the prevalence and incidence of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is also very high. Unfortunately, women bear the disproportionate burden of both STIs and HIV in this region. Early diagnosis, treatment and prevention o...

Sexually Transmitted Infections are various infections that transmitted from other people to others, especially through sexual intercourse. Adolescents the age group with highest number of STIs compared groups. Low knowledge means an increase in unsafe behavior adolescent girls. The aim is find out relationship between and attitudes adolescents about sexually (STIs) preventive towards Baru Vill...