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 - Charlotte Kent and Charlotte Gaydos discuss the relative merits of this, and the possible future of internet testing.

Finally, the UK has published standards of care for all STI clinics. Christopher Fairley and Celia Skinner discuss the implementation of the document, and the merits of the approach.

See also;

Prevalence and management of non-albicans vaginal candidiasis - http://tinyurl.com/azmqcf4

Utilising the internet to test for sexually transmitted infections: results of a survey and accuracy testing - http://tinyurl.com/b7f7apw

National Standards for the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections: will they have an impact? - http://tinyurl.com/bdshuy7

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.