OBJECTIVE To determine if a web-based personally controlled health management system (PCHMS) could increase the uptake of sexually transmitted infections (STI) screening among a young university population. METHODS A non-blinded parallel-group randomized controlled trial was conducted. Participants aged 18-29 years were recruited from a university environment between April and August 2013, an...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the quality and usefulness of integrated sexually transmitted infection (STI) care at non-governmental family planning (FP) clinics in Côte d'Ivoire. METHODS Evaluation components included: (1) a survey measuring the prevalence of STI and the predictive value of the Ivorian vaginal discharge treatment algorithm, (2) client exit interviews, (3) direct observations of cli...

INTRODUCTION Control of sexually transmitted infection (STI) remains challenging in most regions; Latin America (LA) is no exception. The Latin American and Caribbean Association for the Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ALAC-ITS) implemented a survey to collect information on STI programmes in the region. This paper highlights some important sexual behavioural trends from recently pu...

A new, systematic approach to the synthesis of sti®ness by springs is presented using screw (spatial vector) algebra. The space of solutions is fully characterized for all sti®nesses realizable by springs. The main result shows that a rank r sti®ness can always be synthesized by r springs. Further, a sti®ness can be synthesized by an arbitrarily large number of springs greater than r: Algorithm...

The IBM eServer z900 has an overall system I/O bandwidth which is three times that of IBM S/390 G5/G6 servers, necessitating the use of Self-Timed-Interface (STI)-to-PeripheralComponent-Interface (PCI) bridge chips to exploit this bandwidth. The chips are used to form a layer between the networking attachments of the z900 and its main storage complex. The layer adapts the high-speed point-to-po...

In Thyolo District, Malawi, a study was conducted among commercial sex workers (CSWs) attending mobile clinics in order to; determine the prevalence and pattern of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), describe sexual behaviour among those who have an STI and identify risk factors associated with 'no condom use'. There were 1817 CSWs, of whom 448 (25%) had an STI. Of these, the commonest infe...

BACKGROUND This article describes a school-wide sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening to identify adolescent high-risk sexual behaviors, STI history/incidence, and presence of chlamydia and gonorrhea, and examines relationships between high-risk behaviors and screening positive for chlamydia and gonorrhea in an alternative high school setting. METHODS School-wide chlamydia and gonorr...

The Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI-571 is effective therapy for stable phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients, but the majority of CML blast-crisis patients that respond to STI-571 relapse because of reactivation of Bcr-Abl signaling. Mutations of Thr-315 in the Abl kinase domain to Ile (T315I) were previously described in STI-571-resistant patients and likely cause resistance from st...

INTRODUCTION The emergence of drug resistance among bacterial, viral and protozoan sexually transmitted infections (STI) in recent years threatens to undermine global STI control programmes. While this review will focus on microbiological resistance determinants for two important bacterial STI pathogens, namely Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum, it is important to appreciate that a n...

This paper describes a conceptual framework for understanding the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in the evolving sustainable development challenge. It develops the key concepts behind STI and draws linkages between STI and the sustainable development goals, identifying some of the key challenges in strengthening STI capacities in ESCAP Member States. Lastly it sets out a pathw...