Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916700
- Title
- Managing sexually transmitted infections
- Author/Creator
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Ooi, Catriona
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Description
- TESTING for STIs should be guided by individual sexual risk assessment, local epidemiology, and whether the patient falls within a particular atrisk group. With the widespread availability of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), more sampling options are available for patients, resulting in increased acceptability and allowing for limited screening in non-clinical situations. Clinicians need to be aware of sampling options, test limitations and associated window periods, and counsel patients appropriately. Similarly, clinicians need to be aware of first-line treatment modalities and local resistance patterns. STI testing and management is an ideal opportunity to effect behaviour change by way of education, safe-sex messages, and harm-minimisation counselling.
- Relation
- Australian Doctor Issue 30 October 2009, p. 21, 24-28
- Relation
- http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/howtotreat.asp
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Reed Business Information
- Keyword(s)
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sexually transmitted infections;
risk assessment;
nucleic acid amplification tests;
harm-minimisation counselling
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916700
- Identifier
- ISSN:1039-7116
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