RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The value of mass screening for chlamydia control in high prevalence communities
JF Sexually Transmitted Infections
JO Sex Transm Infect
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP i64
OP i68
DO 10.1136/sti.78.suppl_1.i64
VO 78
IS suppl 1
A1 S Hodgins
A1 R W Peeling
A1 S Dery
A1 F Bernier
A1 A LaBrecque
A1 J-F Proulx
A1 J Joly
A1 M Alary
A1 D Mabey
YR 2002
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/78/suppl_1/i64.abstract
AB The social context and epidemiology of STIs in remote communities in Northern Canada was examined. These communities have a persistently high reported incidence of gonorrhoea and chlamydial infection. They remain in the hyperendemic phase of the N gonorrhoeae and C trachomatis epidemics. They are ethnically and culturally homogeneous and contain no readily identifiable core groups, making it impossible to distinguish between spread and maintenance networks. Mass screening of the adult population can reduce the reservoir of C trachomatis infection under these circumstances. It is particularly important to target men in settings such as this where women are routinely screened in antenatal and family planning clinics.