OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine the prevalence of common bacterial sexually transmitted infections, including Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, in women attending clinics in the Solomon Islands. METHODS We conducted a sexual health survey among women attending three nurse-led community outpatient clinics in August 2014, to establish the prevalence of bacterial sexuall...

OBJECTIVE To identify clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic evidence of a probable sexually transmitted infection associated with vulvovaginal symptoms in adolescents denying sexual activity. MATERIAL AND METHODS The medical records of female adolescents, aged 10-18 years were reviewed. These women received first-time medical care for vulvovaginitis, between 1995 and 1999 at Hospital Infa...

OBJECTIVE To examine the sexual behaviour and the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls who attended the Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic in Birmingham. DESIGN Retrospective case control study. SETTING The Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic (Ward 19), General Hospital, Birmingham. SUBJECTS 159 adolescent girls aged 13-16 years; 215 female clinic attenders older than...

OBJECTIVES To describe trends over time in sexual behaviour, condom use, and sexually transmitted infections among female and male adolescents in the United States. METHODS A review was carried out of published studies using data from six surveys since the 1970s on sexual behaviour and surveillance data on sexually transmitted infections. RESULTS The proportion of adolescents who have ever ...

Sexual health has a profound influence over an individual's physical and psychological wellbeing. There is an increasing need to develop effective strategies to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) globally. Many STIs are asymptomatic and yet, highly infectious. The sequelae of such infections may be catastrophic and hence, an integrated multidisciplinary and preventat...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a brief cognitive behavioural intervention in reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections among gay men. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with 12 months' follow up. SETTING Sexual health clinic in London. PARTICIPANTS 343 gay men with an acute sexually transmitted infection or who reported having had unprotected anal intercourse ...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are defined as infections that spread primarily through person-toperson sexual contact. However, several of these infections, in particular HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B, can also be transmitted via mother-to-childtransmission during pregnancy and childbirth, blood products or tissue transfer. There are more than 30 different sexually transmissible bacteri...

BACKGROUND Traditional views of sexual behaviors are frequently changing as the factors influencing them are changing. Therefore, assessing sexual practices that are not part of the tradition would be necessary. The objective of this study was to identify the types of sexual practices, their development pattern and how these development patterns expose students to sexually transmitted infection...

OBJECTIVES To compare normative beliefs about sexual health in young men and women from black Caribbean, black African, and white ethnic groups in order to better understand ethnic inequalities in sexual health. METHODS Focus group discussions with young people living in an area with known high prevalence of gonorrhoea and chlamydia. Groups were stratified by sex and self defined ethnicity. ...