RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 What have we learned from sexually transmitted infection research in sub-Saharan Africa? JF Sexually Transmitted Infections JO Sex Transm Infect FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 488 OP 492 DO 10.1136/sti.2009.041632 VO 86 IS 7 A1 David Mabey A1 Francis Ndowa A1 Ahmed Latif YR 2010 UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/86/7/488.abstract AB Many of the most important research findings on STIs in the past 30 years have come from sub-Saharan Africa. African researchers and their international collaborators have led the way in the development and validation of syndromic STI management, in furthering our understanding of the interactions between HIV and other STIs, in the development of evidence-based strategies for the control of HIV and other STIs in high risk groups and in the general population, and in clinical, microbiological and epidemiological studies on syphilis, chancroid and ophthalmia neonatorum. This review summarises the major achievements of STI researchers in Africa in the past 30 years, and discusses the reasons underlying the success of STI research in Africa.