Barriers to the implementation of expedited partner therapy
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Barriers to the implementation of expedited partner therapy
INTRODUCTION Beginning in the late 1990s, investigators in the USA and UK began evaluating new approaches to ensure the treatment of sex partners of persons with curable sexually transmitted infections (STI). Both countries had longstanding partner services programmes affecting at least some STI, but confronted a mismatch between the resources available to provide partner services and the scale...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.047670