TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 351 LP - 351 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051738 VL - 90 IS - 5 AU - Jackie A Cassell Y1 - 2014/08/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/90/5/351.abstract N2 - Having just returned from the Centers for Disease Control and American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA) conference in Atlanta, I’m struck by the speed of technological change in how we collect, handle and use data. Many presentations addressed novel means of surveillance, and indeed addressed a wider variety of potential influences on sexual health than we usually consider—for example, housing, and local crime rates. Secret diaries are no longer in the form of a the handwritten scrawl of Adrian Mole aged 13—we now ask research subjects and to entrust us with online records of their sexual life. In this issue Stalgaitis and Glick1 report a systematic review of the use of web-based diaries in sexual risk behaviour research, reflecting on their use, methodological issues and best practice. Such diaries appear to be a useful tool but there many complexities, which are … ER -