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Article: Partner-delivered therapy viable in resource-poor areas.(sexually transmitted infections)
- Article from:
- Population Briefs
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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In South Africa and Brazil, the Population Council has recently studied alternative methods of notifying partners of women with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that they need treatment. These studies have verified that offering women with STIs the option of bringing medicines to their partners, rather than requiring partners to come to the clinic, results in high treatment rates.
Notifying partners of infection
Notifying people that their sexual partners have an STI is an important means of reducing the transmission of infection. The practice of partner-delivered medicine has been shown to increase the number of partners contacted and to decrease ...