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Miscellanea
Letter
Spontaneous remission of sexually transmitted diseases must be considered in randomised controlled trials
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- Sexually transmitted diseases
- spontaneous remission
- randomised controlled trials
- HIV women
- Africa
- antenatal HIV
- behavioural science
- HIV
- China
- public health
- social science
- psychology
- epidemiology
- mathematical model
- law ethics
- notification
- chlamydia
- sexual health
- behavioural interventions
Randomised controlled trials that test biomedical interventions to reduce sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have had very mixed results,1 2 as have behavioural trials.3 4 It is only in the past 10 years that the field has recognised that chlamydia resolves itself without treatment in 50% of the cases,4 although the estimates range from 13% to 60%.5–7 The length of time to clear chlamydia infection varies from 60 days in women to up to 15 months in men.5 The speed of resolution is also subject …