December 2005, Volume 81, Issue 6

Brief Encounters

• Helen Ward,
• Rob Miller

Risk of HIV/AIDS in China: subpopulations of special importance

• Z H Qian,
• S H Vermund,
• N Wang

Syphilis in adults

• B T Goh

Postal screening for chlamydia is unsatisfactory

Late diagnosis still delays HIV treatment for many

Adolescent use of the combined oral contraceptive pill: a retrospective observational study

• N Krishnamoorthy,
• S Ekins-Daukes,
• C R Simpson,
• R M Milne,
• P J Helms,
• J S McLay

Declining syphilis prevalence among pregnant women in northern Botswana: an encouraging sign for the HIV epidemic?

• T L Creek,
• H Thuku,
• B Kolou,
• M Rahman,
• P H Kilmarx

Relation between the HIV and the re-emerging syphilis epidemic among MSM in Germany: an analysis based on anonymous surveillance data

• U Marcus,
• C Kollan,
• V Bremer,
• O Hamouda

Mycoplasma genitalium: prevalence, clinical significance, and transmission

• C Anagrius,
• B Loré,
• J S Jensen

Detection of Mycoplasma genitalium in women with laparoscopically diagnosed acute salpingitis

• C R Cohen,
• N R Mugo,
• S G Astete,
• R Odondo,
• L E Manhart,
• J A Kiehlbauch,
• W E Stamm,
• P G Waiyaki,
• P A Totten

Who pays for sex? An analysis of the increasing prevalence of female commercial sex contacts among men in Britain

• H Ward,
• C H Mercer,
• K Wellings,
• K Fenton,
• B Erens,
• A Copas,
• A M Johnson

Acceptability and feasibility of continuous diaphragm use among sex workers in Madagascar

• F Behets,
• A Norris Turner,
• K Van Damme,
• N L Rabenja,
• N Ravelomanana,
• K Zeller,
• J R Rasolofomanana

HIV in female sex workers in five border provinces of Vietnam

• N V Thuong,
• V T Nhung,
• K V Nghia,
• L T Tram,
• N O’Farrell

Mondor’s disease of penis: a forgotten disease

• B Kumar,
• T Narang,
• B D Radotra,
• S Gupta

Factors affecting vaginal pH levels among female adolescents attending genitourinary medicine clinics

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

Aetiology of sexually transmitted infections and response to syndromic treatment in southwest Uganda

• J M Pickering,
• J A G Whitworth,
• P Hughes,
• M Kasse,
• D Morgan,
• B Mayanja,
• L Van der Paal,
• P Mayaud

Factors associated with HIV testing among black Africans in Britain

• F Burns,
• K A Fenton,
• L Morison,
• C Mercer,
• B Erens,
• J Field,
• A J Copas,
• K Wellings,
• A M Johnson

Audio computer assisted interviewing to measure HIV risk behaviours in a clinic population

• S M Rogers,
• G Willis,
• A Al-Tayyib,
• M A Villarroel,
• C F Turner,
• L Ganapathi,
• J Zenilman,
• R Jadack

Sexual risk behaviour among Surinamese and Antillean migrants travelling to their countries of origin

• M A Kramer,
• A van den Hoek,
• R A Coutinho,
• M Prins

Relation of sexual risks and prevention practices with individuals’ stigmatising beliefs towards HIV infected individuals: an exploratory study

• H Liu,
• X Li,
• B Stanton,
• X Fang,
• R Mao,
• X Chen,
• H Yang

Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV

• B Stanley

Acute bilateral parotitis caused by Mycobacterium scrofulaceum: immune reconstitution disease in a patient with AIDS

• S D Lawn,
• A Checkley,
• M H Wansbrough-Jones

Testing for Neisseria gonorrhoeae by nucleic acid amplification testing of chlamydia samples using Roche Cobas Amplicor in a rural area in the north of England does not find more gonorrhoea in primary care

• B Stanley,
• A Todd