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STI Podcast
The Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) podcast offers the latest updates on the transmission, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of STIs and HIV. Each episode features in-depth interviews with renowned authors and leading experts in the field, delving into the latest research. Stay ahead in your field by tuning into our expert discussions and accessing cutting-edge content. Subscribe to the STI podcast and visit the STI journal website - sti.bmj.com - to stay up to date.
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Episodes
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
The 2008 UK National Guidelines for HIV testing recommended HIV testing should be offered to all general medical admissions aged 16–60 years in high prevalence areas, and that this should be evaluated to ensure this was effective in diagnosing previously undiagnosed HIV. In this podcast, Gary Brook talks to Adrian Palfreeman, University Hospitals Leicester, about his evaluation in the city.
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Katy Turner (NIHR research fellow, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol University) talks to Elizabeth Carlin (consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals) about the possibilities, limitations and practicalities of using recent infection testing algorithm (RITA) tests to detect HIV.Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/b3tp9wu
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Peter Greenhouse (consultant in sexual health at Bristol Sexual Health Centre and Western) talks to Christopher Carne (consultant in the Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University) about his recent case-controlled study looking at semen abnormalities in genitourinary medicine clinic attendees.Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/bgrvx8e
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
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
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
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
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
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.
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
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.
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
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
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Michael Waugh discusses with David Goldmeier how to recognise sexual addiction in the sexual health clinic.Read the article online: http://tinyurl.com/bahzwkv
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
Tuesday Jan 29, 2013
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