Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Let's Talk About Sex": pilot study of an interactive CD-ROM to prevent HIV/STIS in female adolescents. 
  • "Set it and forget it": women's perceptions and opinions of long-acting topical vaginal gels. 
  • A patient's guide to safer sex. Reducing the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. 
  • Adolescent oral sex, peer popularity, and perceptions of best friends' sexual behavior. 
  • Association of MDMA/ecstasy and other substance use with self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among college-aged adults: a national study. 
  • Associations between patterns of emerging sexual behavior and young adult reproductive health. 
  • Azithromycin for empirical treatment of the nongonococcal urethritis syndrome in men. A randomized double-blind study. 
  • Azithromycin--spectrum of activity, pharmacokinetics, and clinical applications. 
  • Barber-led sexual health education intervention for Black male adolescents and their fathers. 
  • Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China. 
  • Chlamydia trachomatis. 
  • Comparing patterns of sexual risk among adolescent and young women in a mixed-method study in Tanzania: implications for adolescent participation in HIV prevention trials. 
  • Conceptualizing the multidimensional nature of self-efficacy: assessment of situational context and level of behavioral challenge to maintain safer sex. National Institute of Mental Health Multisite HIV Prevention Trial Group. 
  • Correlates of putting condoms on after sex has begun and of removing them before sex ends: a study of men attending an urban public STD clinic. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies for cervical infection among women at high risk in Madagascar. 
  • Cross-sectional survey of the extent and indicators of hepatitis C virus infection in Houston Department of Health and Human Services' sexually transmitted disease clinics. 
  • Depression, sexually transmitted infection, and sexual risk behavior among young adults in the United States. 
  • Determinants of condom use by Australian secondary school students. 
  • Direct questioning is more effective than patient-initiated report for the detection of sexually transmitted infections in a primary care HIV clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Does this woman have an acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection? 
  • Dual contraceptive method use for pregnancy and disease prevention among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women: the importance of an event-level focus for promoting safer sexual behaviors. 
  • Erosion of microbicide formulation coating layers: effects of contact and shearing with vaginal fluid or semen. 
  • Evaluating Teach One Reach One-An STI/HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention to Enhance Adult-Youth Communication About Sex and Reduce the Burden of HIV/STI. 
  • Factors associated with condom use among at-risk women students and nonstudents seen in managed care. 
  • HIV heterosexual transmission: a hypothesis about an additional potential determinant. 
  • HIV isolation and antigen detection in infected individuals and their seronegative sexual partners. 
  • Hepatitis C in pregnancy: screening, treatment, and management. 
  • Herpes simplex type II and Mycoplasma genitalium as risk factors for heterosexual HIV transmission: report from the heterosexual HIV transmission study. 
  • How do North Carolina prenatal care providers counsel and test pregnant women for HIV? Survey measures knowledge of HIV testing benefits. 
  • Human-to-human transmission of Pseudomonas pseudomallei. 
  • Identifying Adolescent Patients at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Development of a Brief Sexual Health Screening Survey. 
  • Impact of HIV-positive speakers in a multicomponent, school-based HIV/STD prevention program for inner-city adolescents. 
  • Impact of an educational programme on reproductive health among young migrant female workers in Shenzhen, China: an intervention study. 
  • Impact of human papillomavirus (HPV)-6/11/16/18 vaccine on all HPV-associated genital diseases in young women. 
  • Improving sexually transmitted disease management in the private sector: the Jamaica experience. 
  • Improving the accuracy of syndromic diagnosis of genital ulcer disease in Malawi. 
  • Ineffective use of condoms among young women in managed care. 
  • Interdependent effects of cohesion and concurrency for epidemic potential. 
  • Issues in cerebrospinal fluid management. CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory testing. 
  • Knowledge about human papillomavirus among adolescents. 
  • Let's stay together: relationship dissolution and sexually transmitted diseases among parenting and non-parenting adolescents. 
  • Levels of vaginal secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor are decreased in women with lower reproductive tract infections. 
  • Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample. 
  • Mobile phone applications for the care and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases: a review. 
  • Mortality from sexually transmitted diseases in reproductive-aged women: United States, 1999-2010. 
  • Motivations for Reducing Other HIV Risk-Reduction Practices if Taking Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Findings from a Qualitative Study Among Women in Kenya and South Africa. 
  • Multiple partners, risky partners and HIV risk among low-income urban women. 
  • Neutralizing IgG at the portal of infection mediates protection against vaginal simian/human immunodeficiency virus challenge. 
  • New sex partner acquisition and sexually transmitted disease risk among adolescent females. 
  • Nurses on the Front Lines: Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Across Health Care Settings. 
  • Nursing research and the prevention of infectious diseases among vulnerable populations. 
  • Optimizing Partner Notification Programs for Men Who Have Sex with Men: Factorial Survey Results from South China. 
  • Overview: HIV/AIDS in the deep south region of the United States. 
  • Predicting adolescents' longitudinal risk for sexually transmitted infection: results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. 
  • Predictive value of the clinical diagnosis of lower genital tract infection in women. 
  • Promiscuity and the primate immune system. 
  • Psychiatric disorders and risky sexual behaviour in young adulthood: cross sectional study in birth cohort. 
  • Psychosocial vulnerability and HIV-related sexual risk among men who have sex with men and women in the United States. 
  • Results of the NIMH collaborative HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial of a community popular opinion leader intervention. 
  • Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. 
  • Screening, prevalence, and risk factors for cervical lesions among HIV positive and HIV negative women in Swaziland. 
  • Self-collection of vaginal swabs for the detection of Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis: opportunity to encourage sexually transmitted disease testing among adolescents. 
  • Sex, drugs, and race: how behaviors differentially contribute to the sexually transmitted infection risk network structure. 
  • Sexual Mixing in Shanghai: Are Heterosexual Contact Patterns Compatible With an HIV/AIDS Epidemic? 
  • Sexual behavior of HIV discordant couples after HIV counseling and testing. 
  • Sexual behavior, sexually transmitted diseases and prostatitis: the risk of prostate cancer in black men. 
  • Sexual health and the older adult. 
  • Sexual transmission of typhoid fever: a multistate outbreak among men who have sex with men. 
  • Sexually transmitted infections and immune activation among HIV-infected but virally suppressed youth on antiretroviral therapy. 
  • Sexually transmitted infections and prostate cancer among men in the U.S. military. 
  • Sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and intimate partner violence. 
  • Slowing the spread of HIV: agenda for the 1990s. 
  • Stigma's Effect on Social Interaction and Social Media Activity. 
  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. 
  • Systematic review of sexual risk among pregnant and mothering teens in the USA: pregnancy as an opportunity for integrated prevention of STD and repeat pregnancy. 
  • The HIV-positive traveler. 
  • The NIMH Multisite HIV Prevention Trial: reducing HIV sexual risk behavior. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Multisite HIV Prevention Trial Group. 
  • The crack cocaine problem. A warning from North America. 
  • The emerging AIDS crisis in Russia: review of enabling factors and prevention needs. 
  • The impact of infectious and allergic diseases on the quality of life. 
  • The impact of race/ethnicity on mother-to-child HIV transmission in the United States in Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 316. 
  • The increasing impact of human immunodeficiency virus infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and viral hepatitis in Durham County, North Carolina: a call for coordinated and integrated services. 
  • The sociality-health-fitness nexus: synthesis, conclusions and future directions. 
  • Topical microbicides: the time has come. 
  • Trajectories of risk for early sexual activity and early substance use in the Fast Track prevention program. 
  • Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus to sexual partners of hemophiliacs. 
  • Trends of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 infection in female prostitutes and males diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease in Djibouti, east Africa. 
  • User-identified gel characteristics: a qualitative exploration of perceived product efficacy of topical vaginal microbicides. 
  • Vaginal film for prevention of HIV: using visual and tactile evaluations among potential users to inform product design. 
  • Vijana Vijiweni II: a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of a microfinance and peer health leadership intervention for HIV and intimate partner violence prevention among social networks of young men in Dar es Salaam. 
  • Where the most private becomes public: policy making for sexual health. 
  • Why are young college women not using condoms? Their perceived risk, drug use, and developmental vulnerability may provide important clues to sexual risk. 
  • Words can hurt: The effects of physical and psychological partner violence on condom negotiation and condom use among young women. 
  • Young adults' attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about testing for curable STDs outside of clinic settings. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cunningham, Coleen Kathryn, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Katz, David F., Nello L. Teer, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Science Research Institute
  • Weinhold, Kent James, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine