April 2005, Volume 81, Issue 2

Brief encounters

• Rob Miller,
• Helen Ward

Whither “chronic prostatitis”?

• G A Luzzi

Lymphogranuloma venereum in the United Kingdom

• P French,
• C A Ison,
• N Macdonald

Foundation training and genitourinary medicine

• M Walzman,
• G A Luzzi

Life in the littoral zone: lactobacilli losing the plot

• P Hay

A systematic review of the epidemiology and interaction of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2

• K J Looker,
• G P Garnett

Attitudes to HIV and HIV testing in high prevalence areas of China: informing the introduction of voluntary counselling and testing programmes

• T Hesketh,
• L Duo,
• H Li,
• A M Tomkins

Discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS and associated factors: a population based study in the Chinese general population

• J T F Lau,
• H Y Tsui

The effects of urethritis on seminal plasma HIV-1 RNA loads in homosexual men not receiving antiretroviral therapy

• S T Sadiq,
• S Taylor,
• A J Copas,
• J Bennett,
• S Kaye,
• S M Drake,
• S Kirk,
• D Pillay,
• I V D Weller

Incorporating a social networking approach to enhance contact tracing in a heterosexual outbreak of syphilis

• G Ogilvie,
• L Knowles,
• E Wong,
• D Taylor,
• J Tigchelaar,
• C Brunt,
• L James,
• J Maginley,
• H Jones,
• M L Rekart

Biological and hormonal markers of chlamydia, human papillomavirus, and bacterial vaginosis among adolescents attending genitourinary medicine clinics

• L Brabin,
• E Fairbrother,
• D Mandal,
• S A Roberts,
• S P Higgins,
• S Chandiok,
• P Wood,
• G Barnard,
• H C Kitchener

Early syphilis presenting as a painful polyradiculopathy in an HIV positive individual

• A Winston,
• D Marriott,
• B Brew

Mexican physicians’ knowledge and attitudes about the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer: a national survey

• T Aldrich,
• D Becker,
• S G García,
• D Lara

The value of anal cytology and human papillomavirus typing in the detection of anal intraepithelial neoplasia: a review of cases from an anoscopy clinic

• P A Fox,
• J E Seet,
• J Stebbing,
• N Francis,
• S E Barton,
• S Strauss,
• T G Allen-Mersh,
• B G Gazzard,
• M Bower

The response to sertraline in men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome

• R A Lee,
• R M West,
• J D Wilson

Patient, provider, and clinic characteristics associated with public STD clinic patient satisfaction

• S D Mehta,
• J M Zenilman,
• E J Erbelding

Methods employed by genitourinary medicine clinics in the United Kingdom to diagnose bacterial vaginosis

• F E A Keane,
• R Maw,
• C Pritchard,
• C A Ison

“We don’t really have cause to discuss these things, they don’t affect us”: a collaborative model for developing culturally appropriate sexual health services with the Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets

• A Beck,
• A Majumdar,
• C Estcourt,
• J Petrak

Symptoms of non-gonococcal urethritis in heterosexual men: a case control study

• P Iser,
• TR H Read,
• S Tabrizi,
• C Bradshaw,
• D Lee,
• L Horvarth,
• S Garland,
• I Denham,
• C K Fairley

Results of a randomised trial of male condom promotion among Madagascar sex workers

• P J Feldblum,
• T Hatzell,
• K Van Damme,
• M Nasution,
• A Rasamindrakotroka,
• T W Grey

Building a sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in Germany, 2003

• V Bremer,
• U Marcus,
• A Hofmann,
• O Hamouda

Hepatitis B and C viral infections among STD clinic patients in India

• A G Joyee,
• S P Thyagarajan,
• E Vikram Reddy,
• C Venkatesan,
• M Ganapathy

Clinically resistant trichomoniasis

• C E Cohen,
• N M Desmond

A video mobile phone and herpes simplex

• A M Newell,
• J Watson

Non-disclosure of previously known HIV seropositivity in patients “newly” diagnosed with HIV infection

• M Natha,
• A Newell,
• M Pakianathan

Atypical presentation of lobar nephronia in an adult co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C

• S S Dave,
• M Noursadeghi,
• D Rickards,
• J D Cartledge,
• R F Miller

Molluscum contagiosum presenting as penile horn in an HIV positive patient

• Y Manchanda,
• G Sethuraman,
• P P S Paderwani,
• M Singh,
• M K Singh

Contraception’s proved potential to fight HIV

• H W Reynolds,
• M J Steiner,
• W Cates, Jr

Distribution and risk factors of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV infection in a female population with “illegal social behaviour”

• M R Jahani,
• S-M Alavian,
• H Shirzad,
• A Kabir,
• B Hajarizadeh

Collecting the essence of man: semen collection for HIV transmission studies in sub-Saharan Africa

• M A Price,
• M S Cohen,
• I F Hoffman,
• D Chilongozi,
• F E A Martinson,
• T Tembo

First case of spectinomycin resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolate in New Delhi, India

• M Bala,
• K Ray,
• S Salhan

Are all genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections pathogenic?

• Chris Butler

High HIV risk profile among female commercial sex workers in Vinnitsa, Ukraine

• P Kyrychenko,
• V Polonets

Female sex workers and fear of stigmatisation