Obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, sexual and reproductive health

Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases

Sexually transmitted infections: prevention

 

Africa

• Globalization and Health
  • Systematic review of facility-based sexual and reproductive health services for female sex workers in Africa [2014]

Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • Australasian contact tracing guidelines

• UNSW - The Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society
  • My sex, my sexual health: A social study of sexually transmissible infections among gay and bisexual men [2019]

Canada

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta guidelines for post-exposure management and prophylaxis : HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections

• Public Health Ontario
  • Case and Contact Management for STIs: Internet-Based Contact Tracing [2019]

China

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Rural-to-urban migrants are at high risk of sexually transmitted and viral hepatitis infections in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Risk Factors of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections in China: A Systematic Review of Reviews [2015]
  • Disparities and Risks of Sexually Transmissible Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: A Meta-Analysis and Data Synthesis [2014]
  • Trends in High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among General Population Groups in China: A Systematic Review [2013]

Developing countries

• BMC Public Health
  • Partner Notification for sexually transmitted infections in developing countries: a systematic review [2010]

Europe

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Developing a national strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections [2019]
  • Utilising social media to support HIV/STI prevention: evidence to inform a handbook for public health programme managers [2017]
  • Utilising social media for HIV/STI prevention programmes among young people [2017]
  • Communication strategies for the prevention of HIV, STI and hepatitis among MSM in Europe [2016]
  • A comprehensive approach to HIV/STI prevention in the context of sexual health in the EU/EEA [2013]

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • 2015 European guidelines for the management of partners of persons with sexually transmitted infections [2015]

High-income countries

• AIDS and Behavior
  • The Cost-Effectiveness of HIV/STI Prevention in High-Income Countries with Concentrated Epidemic Settings: A Scoping Review [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • What Works? Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Blood-Borne Viruses in Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia Living in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2019]

International

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Partner Services in STD Prevention Programs: A Review [2016]

• Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Biomedical technologies for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV for adolescent girls and young women [2016]

• Vaccine
  • The global roadmap for advancing development of vaccines against sexually transmitted infections: Update and next steps [2016]

Liberia

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Implementation of a National Semen Testing and Counseling Program for Male Ebola Survivors — Liberia, 2015–2016 [2016]

Low and middle income countries

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Interventions to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections, Including HIV, Among Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of the Published and Gray Literature [2016]

Spain

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Consensus on Recommendations for Safe Sexual Activity during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic [2020]

United Kingdom

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • BASHH updated position statement on doxycycline as prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections [2022]
  • UK National Guidelines on safer sex advice [2012]
  • BASHH Statement on Partner Notification for Sexually Transmissible Infections [2012]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 [2022]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Reducing sexually transmitted infections [2022]
  • Sexually transmitted infections: condom distribution schemes [2017]
  • Prevention of sexually transmitted infections and under 18 conceptions [2007]

• Public Health England
  • Doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis for STIs: PHE response

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Monkeypox: cleaning sex-on-premises venues

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2020]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Expedited Partner Therapy [2018]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Strategies Adopted by Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men to Prevent Monkeypox virus Transmission — United States, August 2022 [2022]
  • Modeling the Impact of Sexual Networks in the Transmission of Monkeypox virus Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men — United States, 2022 [2022]
  • Clinical Prevention Guidance - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Integrated Prevention Services for HIV Infection, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis for Persons Who Use Drugs Illicitly: Summary Guidance from CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [2012]

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • The Role of Behavioral Counseling in STD Prevention Program Settings [2016]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling [2020]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Preventing HIV and other STIs among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV incidence [2020]
  • Prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the era of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV [2019]
  • A strategic approach to strengthening control of reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections : use of the programme guidance tool [2009]
  • Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006–2015 [2007]
  • Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006–2015 - Key messages [2006]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections - Risk factors
  • Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme - Prevention

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