STI Podcast

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 - C...

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.