The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality articles from June 1997

The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality archives from June 1997

The control of sexually transmitted diseases in Canada: a cautiously optimistic overview.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words: Sexually transmitted disease STD Control Health Promotion Canada ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The author wishes to acknowledge Ms. Dorothy Rachar and Ms. April Accola for assistance in manuscript preparation, and the staff of the Division of...

Reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted disease through behavioural and social change.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words. STD prevention Canada Behavioural change Condom use Acknowledgements: Thanks to Michelle Coghlan for assistance with the literature search, Dr. Sandra Houston for locating data and providing commentary and Dr. Sean Lake for providing...

A theory-based framework for intervention and evaluation in STD/HIV prevention. (sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus)(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words: HIV prevention STD prevention Theory-based interventions Elicitation research Evaluation strategies Acknowledgements: Work on this manuscript was supported by research grants from Health Canada, the U.S. National Institutes of...

Sexually transmitted human papillomaviruses: current concepts and control issues.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words: Human papillomavirus Cervical cancer HPV control strategies HPV testing HPV treatment INTRODUCTION Sexually transmitted human papillomaviruses (HPV) are implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of anogenital diseases...

Genital herpes: the epidemiology and control of a common sexually transmitted disease.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words: Genital herpes HSV-2 HSV-1 Risk factors Control strategies INTRODUCTION Seroprevalence studies on selected populations in the United States, the United Kingdom, South America, and Africa indicate that infection with one or...

Lovers and livers: hepatitis B as an STD. (sexually transmitted disease)(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Keywords: Hepatitis B virus Sexually transmitted disease Risk factors Prevention Canada Acknowledgement: The authors wish to thank A.S. Meltzer for permission to use, as the title of this paper, a phrase from his 1983 booklet, "The ABCs of...

Chlamydia control: components of an effective control strategy to reduce the incidence of chlamydia trachomatis.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Few consider the problem of genital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis on the same scale as those of other preventable diseases such as mumps, polio and measles. Perhaps the fact that genital chlamydia infection is the most...

Gonorrhea: epidemiology and control strategies.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words: N. Gonorrhoeae Gonorrhea control Epidemiology Canada Acknowledgements: The author thanks Dr. Robert C. Brunham for useful comments on the initial versions of the manuscript, the Division of STD Prevention and Control, Bureau of...

The effects of undetected and untreated sexually transmitted diseases: pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy in Canada.(STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Sexually transmitted disease Tubal infertility Chlamydia trachomatis Ectopic pregnancy INTRODUCTION The Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies (1993) emphasized the...

Syphilis: epidemiology and control. (STDs and Sexual/Reproductive Health)
June 22, 1997... Key words: Syphilis Epidemiology Syphilis control Canada INTRODUCTION Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum, and transmitted by vaginal, oral-genital or anal contact with an infected person. The...