February 2005, Volume 81, Issue 1

Why should we care about palliative care for AIDS in the era of antiretroviral therapy?

• P A Selwyn

Sexual health and HIV in Scotland

• R Nandwani

Brief Encounters

• Nicola Low,
• Rob Miller,
• Helen Ward

Gonococcal endocarditis

Chester Chronicles: Art attack

• C O’Mahony

HIV prophylaxis after sexual assault

Neurosyphilis in the modern era

• M Timmermans,
• J Carr

Does palliative care improve outcomes for patients with HIV/AIDS? A systematic review of the evidence

• R Harding,
• D Karus,
• P Easterbrook,
• V H Raveis,
• I J Higginson,
• K Marconi

Iatrogenic swollen penis

• C Ajith,
• G Somesh,
• B Kumar

Prevalence of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis increases significantly with level of urbanisation and suggests targeted screening approaches: results from the first national population based study in the Netherlands

• J van Bergen,
• H M Götz,
• J H Richardus,
• C J P A Hoebe,
• J Broer,
• A J T Coenen

A prediction rule for selective screening of Chlamydia trachomatis infection

• H M Götz,
• J E A M van Bergen,
• I K Veldhuijzen,
• J Broer,
• C J P A Hoebe,
• J H Richardus

Young, male, and infected: the forgotten victims of chlamydia in primary care

• P Robertson,
• O E Williams

Increase of sexually transmitted infections, but not HIV, among young homosexual men in Amsterdam: are STIs still reliable markers for HIV transmission?

• A K van der Bij,
• I G Stolte,
• R A Coutinho,
• N H T M Dukers

Sexual behaviour: related adverse health burden in the United States

• S H Ebrahim,
• M T McKenna,
• J S Marks

The interrelation of demographic and geospatial risk factors between four common sexually transmitted diseases

• E F Monteiro,
• C J N Lacey,
• D Merrick

A rapid assessment of community-wide HIV/STI intervention in China

• D B Wang,
• X J Zhang,
• H B Zhang,
• C Y Zhang,
• B Su

Screening injecting drug users for sexually transmitted infections and blood borne viruses using street outreach and self collected sampling

• C S Bradshaw,
• L I Pierce,
• S N Tabrizi,
• C K Fairley,
• S M Garland

Triage up front

• P Handy,
• R Pattman

Social support and sexually transmitted disease related healthcare utilisation in sexually experienced African-American adolescents

• L M Lowery,
• S Chung,
• J M Ellen

Mycoplasma genitalium: an organism commonly associated with cervicitis among west African sex workers

• J Pépin,
• A-C Labbé,
• N Khonde,
• S Deslandes,
• M Alary,
• A Dzokoto,
• C Asamoah-Adu,
• H Méda,
• E Frost

Signs and symptoms of urethritis and cervicitis among women with or without Mycoplasma genitalium or Chlamydia trachomatis infection

• L Falk,
• H Fredlund,
• J S Jensen

Influence of age and geographical origin in the prevalence of high risk human papillomavirus in migrant female sex workers in Spain

• J del Amo,
• C González,
• J Losana,
• P Clavo,
• L Muñoz,
• J Ballesteros,
• A García-Saiz,
• M J Belza,
• M Ortiz,
• B Menéndez,
• J del Romero,
• F Bolumar

Risk of HIV infection among male sex workers in Spain

• M J Belza

Chlamydia trachomatis in female sex workers in Belgium: 1998–2003

• R P Mak,
• L Van Renterghem,
• A Traen

Circumcision practice in the Philippines: community based study

• R B Lee

Repeated detection of lymphogranuloma venereum caused by Chlamydia trachomatis L2 in homosexual men in Hamburg

• T Meyer,
• R Arndt,
• A von Krosigk,
• A Plettenberg

Determinants of hospital mortality of HIV infected patients from north India

• S K Sharma,
• T Kadhiravan,
• A Banga,
• I Bhatia,
• T Goyal,
• P K Saha

STI services in the United Kingdom, how shall we cope?

• A R Markos

Refrigeration does not compromise recovery of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from charcoal transport swabs

• J J Wade,
• M A Graver

Chlamydia in heterosexual men: could peak prevalence be in teenagers?

• H Young,
• K Allison,
• K Carrick-Anderson,
• L Mckay,
• G Scott

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