The Society of Sexual Health Advisers one day annual conference will take place on Saturday the 22nd of September at Unite House, Theobalds Road, Holborn, London. This conference is aimed at all practitioners working in sexual health in the roles of sexual health advising and sexual health nursing. Topics covered this year will include: · Forensic Safeguarding · … [Read more...]
Gonorrhea antibiotics rendered ineffective by STI’s ‘high levels of resistance’, WHO warns
1 September 2016 Ian Johnston Article Link The sexually transmitted disease could become untreatable with 'serious sexual and reproductive health consequences', World Health Organisation says An entire class of antibiotics should not be used to treat one of the main sexually transmitted diseases, gonorrhoea, because it has developed “widespread, high levels of … [Read more...]
GRASP 2010 (Gonococcal Resistance to Antimcrobials Surveillance Programme)
Synopsis GRASP (Gonococcal Resistance to Antimcrobials Surveillance Programme) is a national sentinel surveillance programme which has monitored trends and drifts in susceptibility in gonococcal isolates since 2000. It collects isolates from consecutive patients attending a network of 26 genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics that give regional representation in England and … [Read more...]