PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R Hayes
AU  - M Wawer
AU  - R Gray
AU  - J Whitworth
AU  - H Grosskurth
AU  - D Mabey
TI  - Randomised trials of STD treatment for HIV prevention: report of an international workshop. HIV/STD Trials Workshop Group.
AID  - 10.1136/sti.73.6.432
DP  - 1997 Dec 01
TA  - Genitourinary Medicine
PG  - 432--443
VI  - 73
IP  - 6
4099  - http://sti.bmj.com/content/73/6/432.short
4100  - http://sti.bmj.com/content/73/6/432.full
SO  - Genitourin Med1997 Dec 01; 73
AB  - Three community trials of the impact of STD treatment interventions on HIV incidence in rural populations have been completed or are in progress in Uganda and Tanzania. Investigators from these trials met for a joint technical workshop in Baltimore in May 1996. This report summarises the consensus of the workshop, with the aim of providing useful input to research on HIV intervention strategies. Issues discussed include: (i) the role of community randomised trials; (ii) strategies for STD management; (iii) epidemiological and statistical issues in the design and analysis of community randomised trials; (iv) diagnostic methods for STDs in population surveys; (v) treatment regimens for STDs in rural Africa; and (vi) ethical issues in community trials.