Sti Podcast

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.