Partner notification and treatment Institute of Venereology-experience

INTRODUCTION: There has been a significant increase in general awareness about Sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) among the general public. However, rates of partner notification and treatment which are an integral part of STD awareness is still questionable. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS: We anal...

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Autores principales: Arunkumar, S., Kamoji, Sushruth Guruputra, Kasatti, Gajendran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23919048
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.112863
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description INTRODUCTION: There has been a significant increase in general awareness about Sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) among the general public. However, rates of partner notification and treatment which are an integral part of STD awareness is still questionable. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS: We analyzed the statistics for prevalence of partner notification (which is about 52%) as well as the possible reasons for non-compliance. An overview of various ways of partner notification has been given as patient delivered partner medication (PDPM) and patient based partner referral (PBPR) of which PDPM is the most acceptable and effective method worldwide.
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spelling pubmed-37304672013-08-05 Partner notification and treatment Institute of Venereology-experience Arunkumar, S. Kamoji, Sushruth Guruputra Kasatti, Gajendran Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Original Article INTRODUCTION: There has been a significant increase in general awareness about Sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) among the general public. However, rates of partner notification and treatment which are an integral part of STD awareness is still questionable. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS: We analyzed the statistics for prevalence of partner notification (which is about 52%) as well as the possible reasons for non-compliance. An overview of various ways of partner notification has been given as patient delivered partner medication (PDPM) and patient based partner referral (PBPR) of which PDPM is the most acceptable and effective method worldwide. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3730467/ /pubmed/23919048 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.112863 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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