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Clinical round-up
Clinical round-up
  1. Sophie Herbert1,
  2. Emily Chung2
  1. 1 Genitourinary Medicine/HIV, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Northamptonshire, UK
  2. 2 Sexual Health and HIV, Mortimer Market Centre, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sophie Herbert, GUM/HIV, Mortimer Market Centre, London WC1E 6JB, UK; sophieherbert{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2018-053677

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors SH wrote the manuscript. EC reviewed the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.