The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Europe) has asked that International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) publicises the urgent work of the task force. The first meeting was held in Copenhagen on 23–24 February 1998, the second meeting was held in Vilnius on 22–23 September 1998. The unprecedented rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in large par...

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In this retrospective review of cases of clinical proctitis, we identified the frequency of common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among men who have sex with men on the basis of reports from the municipal STD clinic in San Francisco. Of note, gonorrhea and chlamydia were the most common STDs, followed by herpes and syphilis. Current STD treatment guidelines recommend empiric treatment for...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are very frequent in the whole world. Males who do not use a condom during their sexual relations are at great risk. We report cases of STD during six months of observation, among homosexual/bisexual males who participate in the Project Horizonte. There were 16 cases of genital warts, 6 cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection, 24 cases of unspecific u...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological data suggest that the prevalence of syphilis, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis has increased in both urban and rural areas of Mongolia. These data are primarily substantiated by notifications of cases of clinically apparent disease in both rural and urban areas, plus laboratory diagnoses from the AIDS/STD Reference Center, Ulaanbaatar. In the past 5 years, however, there ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Europe) has asked that International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) publicises the urgent work of the task force. The first meeting was held in Copenhagen on 23–24 February 1998, the second meeting was held in Vilnius on 22–23 September 1998. The unprecedented rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in large par...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Europe) has asked that International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) publicises the urgent work of the task force. The first meeting was held in Copenhagen on 23–24 February 1998, the second meeting was held in Vilnius on 22–23 September 1998. The unprecedented rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in large par...

Attempts were made to isolate Chlamydia trachomatis from the cervix of 300 women attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in Leeds. The women were divided into four groups; (1) 130 were consorts of men suffering from non-specific urethritis; (2) 66 were suffering from gonorrhoea, or were consorts of men suffering from this disease; (3) 56 were suffering from other sexually transmitt...

Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives leading to an increase in sexual activity, accompanied by an increase in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Using Centers for Disease Control data on the in...

We describe three related studies of possible aetiological risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in men attending an STD clinic. In this paper we present the results for a variety of social and demographic variables traditionally associated with STD. In contrast to the results in the next two papers, these were largely negative. Occurrence rates of overall STD or of hepatitis, s...