Chapter 3: Managing STDs, Population Reports, Series L, Number 9

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Credits
Chapters

The Toll of STDs
Reducing the Toll of STDs
Managing STDs

Obtaining Information
The Physical Examination
Diagnosis and Treatment
Counseling

Diagnostic and Treatment Tips
Getting Services to the People
Getting People to Services
Promoting Prevention—Condoms and Monogamy

Appendix
Figures
Tables
Side-Bars
Bibliography

HIGHLIGHTS

AIDS linked to other STDs
Tasks for effective programs
Syndromic approach can improve STD care
Counseling STD patients crucial
Many women with STDs lack symptoms, need special care
Lack of drugs hampers care
What role for family planning programs?
Communication efforts bring people to treatment
Services, communication address those at high risk

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Volume XXI, Number 1
June, 1993

Managing STDs

Effective management of STDs, as of most diseases, requires that patients and health care providers cooperate in a series of steps leading to a cure:

1. Obtaining information: Providers ask questions about patients' health and sexual activity; patients answer questions completely and truthfully.

2. Performing a physical examination: Patients are willing to be examined; providers check patients for signs of STDs.

3. Diagnosing and treating patients: Providers know the signs and symptoms of STDs and have the right drugs to treat them; patients can obtain the drugs, and they take the full course as directed.

4. Counseling: Providers counsel patients to cure the current infection and prevent reinfection; patients follow the counseling advice and help get their sexual partners treated.

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