Expedited Partner Therapy for Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Assessing the Legal Environment

Expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted diseases: assessing the legal environment.

An emerging alternative to traditional partner management for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is expedited partner therapy (EPT), which involves the delivery of medications or prescriptions to STD patients for their partners without the clinical assessment of the partners. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended EPT nationally in limited circumstances; however, ...

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW Expedited Partner Therapy for Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Assessing the Legal Environment

An emerging alternative to traditional partner management for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is expedited partner therapy (EPT), which involves the delivery of medications or prescriptions to STD patients for their partners without the clinical assessment of the partners. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended EPT nationally in limited circumstances; however, ...

Expedited partner therapy for scabies: legal and ethical considerations.

Dr Itch is evaluating a young man named Sam who has pruritic papules on his hands and genitals. A mineral oil preparation confirms scabies. Dr Itch recommends treatment with permethrin cream. Sam reveals that he lives with his girlfriend and brother, both of whom have developed symptoms suggestive of scabies. Neither Sam’s girlfriend nor his brother is a patient of Dr Itch. In fact, Sam confide...

Intimate partner violence after the diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence after the diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in Fortaleza, CE, Northeastern Brazil, in 2012 and involved 221 individuals (40.3% male and 59.7% female) attended to at reference health care units for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Data...

[Sexually transmitted diseases (S.T.D.)].