Text Messaging After HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening: Do Patients' Profiles Matter?

Concerns about Hiv and Sexually Transmitted Infection

Rosimar Torres, MD; Cibel M. Hilerio, PhD(c); Georgina Silva, MPHE; Nyrma Y. Ortiz, PhD(c); Carmen D. Zorrilla, MD; Lydia E. Santiago, PhD In this study, the RESPECT-2, an HIV risk reduction intervention developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was translated into Spanish and culturally adapted to the Puerto Rican population. A new intervention emerged called the RReduCPR (R...

Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection

Sexually transmitted diseases in children: HIV infection.

Accepted for publication 21 May 1992 Epidemiology Of 10 million adults throughout the world with HIV infection, 75% have been infected through heterosexual transmission. This has resulted in an increasing number of women who have been infected, and with it, a rise in the numbers of children. Children under the age of 13 years with AIDS represent about 2% of all the total cases reported to the W...

New Wave of Sexually-Transmitted HIV in Iran

Syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases in HIV infection.

An ongoing resurgence of syphilis and continued transmission of other common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in HIV-infected patients is fueled by a number of factors, including "prevention burnout" resulting from fatigue with long-term, safer-sex behavior, use of recretional drugs (notably methamphetamine), and false sense of security associated with HIV serosorting and elevated CD4+ cell...