To link environmental factors with prevalence of RTI/STD symptoms among women in the urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh and also to investigate if there are differences in levels of RTI/STD prevalence among the slums. Fourteen slums from Dhaka city were the secondary units for this study, households were selected according to systematic sampling. One woman from each selected household was intervi...

INTRODUCTION Stable individual differences in personality traits have well-documented associations with various aspects of health. One of the health outcomes that directly depends on people's behavioral choices, and may therefore be linked to personality traits, is having a sexually transmitted disease (STD). AIM The study examines the associations between a comprehensive set of basic persona...

Objective: To compare the demographics and risk factors of men who utilise the services of a municipal public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic with those who utilise the services provided by a non-public men’s STD clinic operated by a not for profit primary care clinic. Methods: A record based review of the characteristics and STD prevalence of men who visited a nonpublic STD clinic in...

We explored STD (sexually transmitted disease) service preferences among 108 African-American adolescent males recruited from a high-morbidity neighborhood. Participants largely preferred to seek care at traditional STD testing venues (86.5%) rather than nontraditional venues. Additionally, most males preferred receiving STD test results from a clinician (61.1%) rather than online (11.1%) or th...

he Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in their 1997 report The Hidden Epidemic, Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases, concluded that an effective national system of STD Prevention did not exist. As they discussed gaps, new approaches and collaborations, they developed the following vision statement to guide their work: “An effective...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of an intervention for pharmacy workers in improving their recognition and management of sexually transmitted disease (STD) syndromes. METHODS We randomly selected 14 districts (total population nearly 4 million) from the 24 districts of low socioeconomic status in Lima, Peru. We randomly assigned paired districts to receive training and support for m...

Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) and Spoken Term Detection (STD) have been two of the most intensively investigated topics in spoken document processing research according to the establishment of the SDR and STD test collections by the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) and NIST. Because Japanese spoken document processing researchers also requires such test collections for SDR and STD, we have es...

David W Purcell, JD, PhD; H Irene Hall, PhD; Kyle L Bernstein, PhD, ScM; Thomas L Gift, PhD; Eugene McCray, MD; Jonathan Mermin, MPH, MD 1Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States 2Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Preven...