STI Podcast

Dr Clare Tanton, UCL's Centre for Sexual Health and HIV research, and Soazig Clifton, NatCen Social Research, both researchers on The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (http://natsal.ac.uk) join us to discuss the survey, how it was carried out, and some of the reaction to their findings.Read the papers online:What's new about Natsal-3: http://goo.gl/IDaRYNConsistency in reporting sensitive sexual behaviours in Britain: http://goo.gl/Zu5qzcMethodology of Natsal-3: http://goo.gl/y85Aw6

Barbara Van Der Pol, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Dermot Hurly and Monika Buehrer-Skinner, both Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, have a conversation about issues related to chlamydia point-of-care tests and the need to continually assess the performance of these assays in real-use settings.Read the full paper here: bit.ly/1nizXj5

To go alongside this month's special STI issue on Trichomonas vaginalis, Dr Scott McClelland, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Global Health, University of Washington, and Prof Sharon Hillier, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, talk about our current understanding of the condition, and future clinical and academic directions.
View all the content from the special issue here: http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/6.toc

Mark Lawton, Mayura Nathan, and David Asboe, the authors of a recent editorial in STI, discuss why they think it's time to include young MSM in the national vaccination programme for HPV.Read the full editorial: http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/5/342.full

Seán Cassidy, doctor in GU medicine at Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, and social media editor for STI, talks to Jonathan Ross, a professor of Sexual Health and HIV based at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

Seán Cassidy, doctor in GU medicine at Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, and social media editor for STI, talks to Marita Van De Laar, Head of Program for HIV and Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections in the Office of the Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (EDCD)

Seán Cassidy, doctor in GU medicine at Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, and social media editor for STI, talks to Katie Turner, a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) fellow, based in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol.

Seán Cassidy, doctor in GU medicine at Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, and social media editor for STI, talks to Myron Cohen, Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health and Director for the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina.

In the UK, it is estimated that 24% of HIV positive patients are unaware of their infection. This figure is derived from statistical modelling, but how often do people who are identified as having been unaware of their infection are actually just non-disclosing instead? In this podcast Gary Brooks talks to Ann Sullivan from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, about her research into this phenomenon.Read the full paper online: http://tinyurl.com/bdccuwd

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.