Brief encounters
GUIDELINES
Raging hormones coupled with breakdown of family and social restraints lie behind the risk taking behaviour of the young. It is good to have guidelines for managing STIs in children and adolescents. They let the clinician off the hook. But guidelines are as good as the evidence available—and often that is not much.
See pp 314 and 324
KIDS ARE SO GROWN UP
Young people don’t care if you look uncool, nor are they put off by sharing waiting rooms with grown ups. Have the right attitude, open outside school hours, and allow walk ins and you have yourself an adolescent clinic. Sexual health services for the young is within all our grasps.
See p 342
STIGMA NOT SHAME MATTERS
Stigma about STIs, but not …
