Sti Podcast

William Wong (Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China) and Till Bärnighausen (Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) discuss March’s STI HIV/AIDS themed issue. They talk about patient perspectives of ART, the future of providing treatment in different countries and contexts, and political and donor commitment to treating the disease. Read the special issue online: http://tinyurl.com/aeaoygx

Dr Alan Tang from Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, discusses approaches to setting up and running a prison based sexual health service with Éamonn O’Moore, unit director for Thames Valley Health Protection Unit of the HPA. Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/b6s2nv6

King Holmes (director, Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington; past president of the IUSTI) talks to Patricia Garcia (dean of the School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru; regional director for IUSTI in Latin America and the Carribbean) about the progress in treating STIs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Professor Garcia discusses what a recent survey by The Latin American and Caribbean Association for the Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ALAC-ITS) revealed about STI programmes in the region, including rapid needle testing in Brazil and Peru’s national AIDS STI programme.

Dr Colm O’Mahony (consultant at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK) talks to Professor Christopher Fairley (director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia) about the near disappearance of genital warts in Australia’s young women following the start of their human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme. They also discuss the UK’s decision to provide Cervarix, rather than Gardasil, through its HPV programme.

Catherine Ison and Gwenda Hughes, Health Protection Agency UK, and Craig Tipple, Imperial College London, discuss strategies for the surveillance and treatment of antibiotic resistance bacteria. Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/bfdnnf7

Michael Waugh discusses with David Goldmeier how to recognise sexual addiction in the sexual health clinic. Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/bahzwkv

In this STI podcast, Andy Winter (consultant in sexual health and HIV, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, UK) talks to Gary Brook (Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK) about the effectiveness of electronic records in chlamydia and gonorrhoea treatment and partner notification. Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/b6edcd6

Cath Mercer, an associate editor with STI, asks Lisa Langhaug (Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, London, UK) about her work investigating the best way to ask Zimbabwean youth about their sexual health. Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/9wbsegt

Khalil Ghanem (associate editor on STI) talks to James Blanchard (University of Manitoba) Charlotte Watts (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Sevgi Aral (Center(s) for Disease Control) about the phenomenon of emergent properties, and how it relates to STI control.

In this episode of the STI podcast, Richard Crosby from the University of Kentucky talks to Mary Ott from Indiana University about her research on condom use, and attitudes towards, in 14-16 year-old boys. Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/atc2rah

Cathy Ison (director of the Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory, HPA) talks to David Barlow (consultant physician at the Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital) about the future of treating and testing for gonorrhoea.

Gary Brook and Khalil Ghanem discuss a case report of syphilis uncovering drug resistance in HIV published in the journal STI.

Anatole Mennon-Johansson and John Richens discuss the advantages and disadvantages of computer assisted interviewing in sexual health clinics.

Professor Graham Hart (Director of the UCL Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, UCL STI editorial board member) talks to Dr Stefan Baral (Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins) about his research into bisexual concurrency, bisexual partnerships, and HIV among Southern African men who have sex with men.

In this podcast we’ll be looking at chronic candida glabrata infection, discussing the reliability of STI testing on the internet, and looking at the set of standards set for all UK STI clinics. Firstly, David White and Janet Wilson discuss the formulation of treatment for chronic non-albicans vaginal candidiasis. Also, there has been an explosion in the number of websites offering STI testing - Charlotte Kent and Charlotte Gaydos discuss the relative merits of this, and the possible future of internet testing. Finally, the UK has published standards of care for all STI clinics. Christopher Fairley and Celia Skinner discuss the implementation of the document, and the merits of the approach. See also; Prevalence and management of non-albicans vaginal candidiasis - http://tinyurl.com/azmqcf4 Utilising the internet to test for sexually transmitted infections: results of a survey and accuracy testing - http://tinyurl.com/b7f7apw National Standards for the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections: will they h

In this second STI podcast, Michael Waugh (FRCP, FRCPI) talks to William Yarber (Senior research fellow, The Kinsey Institute) about his paper on the impact of condom fit.

In this first STI podcast, Jackie Cassell (STI editor, Professor of clinical epidemiology) talks to Ashok Alexander (Director, Avahan India AIDS Initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation) about the work that has been carried out to fight AIDS and HIV in India.