Introduction: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are increasing globally and became the public health concerns particularly in adolescents. The adolescents prone to get STI’s due involvements of unhealthy behavior. However, having deficiency identifying signs symptoms STIs, could lead complications such as infertility, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). No studies have been conducted among ...

Introduction: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a significant public health problem in countries within the South Pacific, including Fiji. If untreated, curable STIs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis can cause infertility, adverse outcomes pregnancy, increase risk of contracting HIV infected individuals.
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A non-optimal vaginal microbiome (VMB) is typically diverse with a paucity of Lactobacillus crispatus and often associated bacterial vaginosis (BV) sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Although compositional characterization the VMB well-characterized, especially for BV, knowledge remains limited on how different groups bacteria relate to incident STIs, among adolescents. In this study, we c...

Approximately 12% of girls and young women in the United States pledge abstinence. Yet most break their pledges, engaging in first intercourse before marriage. The extant literature reports few differences between pledge breakers and nonpledgers in sexually transmitted infections and nonmarital pregnancies. The present research maintains that previous studies may have obscured important differe...

Worldwide Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are two of the most prevalent sexually transmitted pathogens. The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in women from Taif, western region, KSA. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was carried using DNA extracted from 144 female urine samples. Primer pairs specifi...

BACKGROUND The global burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is a major concern to the World Health Organization (WHO). OBJECTIVE To document STIs treated by Bapedi traditional healers and their methods of diagnoses in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. METHODS A semi-structured questionnaire with closed and open-ended questions was used to collect data from 34 traditional healer...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) contribute largely to the burden of health in South Africa and are recognized as major contributors to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. Young women are particularly vulnerable to STIs. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine the risk factors associated with prevalent and incident STIs among women who ...

background: routine reporting of sexually transmitted infections (stis) in iran is one of the main information sources on stis, endures some diminution under influence of several factors. we aimed to adjust registered sti data with a model-based approach and estimate the incidence and prevalence of stis in iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, we developed a stochastic compartmental mod...

Medicinal plants have been prescribed by traditional healers for the treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) years. This study documents therapeutic used against STI’s in Thaba ‘Nchu, South Africa. Information was gathered through semi-structured interviews with medical practitioners between March and December 2017. on medicinal plants, their local names, uses gathered. The use val...

BACKGROUND Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are among the most common causes of illness in the world and have far-reaching health, economic and social consequences for many countries. Failure to diagnose and treat STIs at an early stage may result in serious complications and sequels. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in patients w...