Background. The aim of this study was to identify overall sexually transmitted diseases (STD) burden in HIV infected patients and determine compliance with sexual health screening and treatment based on CDC 2010 Guideline in our HIV clinic. Methods. This is a retrospective cohort study of all adult patients attending at least 2 visits at the University of Kansas Medical Center outpatient infect...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of urethral chlamydia and gonorrhea in males in a correctional facility in Ontario, Canada, and to explore risk factors for infection. METHODS Between June and December, 2009, 500 adult males who had been newly admitted at a correctional facility in southern Ontario completed a survey of risk factors and provided a urine sample for testing. Those who tes...

OBJECTIVE An increasing proportion of gonorrhea in the United States is diagnosed in the private sector, posing a challenge to existing national surveillance systems. We described gonorrhea epidemiology outside sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic settings. METHODS Through the STD Surveillance Network (SSuN), health departments in the San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, and Rich...

There is evidence in the economics literature that restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion reduces the demand for abortion. The unresolved question is whether such restrictions also increase safe sex (that is, pregnancy avoidance) behavior among women. This study explores that issue using state-level gonorrhea rates among women for 1975-1995. The rationale is that sexual behavior that lea...

Gonorrhea and other infectious diseases were introduced to Ghana prior to the colonial period by European settlers. By the 1920s, both gonorrhea and syphilis were widespread in southern Ghana (3760 and 1503 cases, respectively, in 1925-26) and soon disseminated throughout the country. By 1946, there were 82,430 cases of gonorrhea and 9340 cases of syphilis--an increase exacerbated by the infl...