Significant increase in testing rates for sexually transmissible infections following the introduction of an anal cytological screening program, targeting HIV-positive men who have sex with men

Sexual Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-78

  Botes, Leon P ^a,b   McAllister, John ^b   Ribbons, Edward ^c   Jin, Fengyi ^a   Hillman, Richard J ^a,b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

human papillomavirus; public health; STI testing rates

Indexed keywords

ANAL CYTOLOGY SCREENING PROGRAM; ANORECTAL SMEAR; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; GONORRHEA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMEAR; SYPHILIS; THROAT CULTURE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; URINE;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANAL CANAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 79251616923     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH10027     Document Type: Article

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