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What is a major reason for slow policy adoption in STI prevention and control?
What is a major barrier to HIV testing among minors who are sexually active and at risk of HIV infection?
What is a major factor influencing sexual health awareness and safer sex practices?
What is a major reason for low reporting of STIs in many countries?
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What is a major barrier to STI testing and treatment among adolescents?
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What is a major reason for not using condoms among some populations?
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What is a major consequence of weak health information systems?
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What is a key strategy for reducing the burden of STIs?
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What is a major aim of the WHO's Global Health Sector Strategy on STIs?
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What is a major risk factor for STIs among adolescents?
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Study Notes
Strategies to Reduce the Burden of STIs
- Integrate STI services into other programs, such as HIV and hepatitis
- Adopt multiplex technologies for diagnosis, e.g., dual testing of HIV and Syphilis
- Promote prevention interventions to high-risk groups
- Mobilize resources for STI programs
- Advocate for policy changes at the highest level
Counselling and Individual Behavioural Approaches
- Consistent condom use for primary prevention against STIs and unintended pregnancies
- Sexuality education, STI and HIV pre- and post-test counselling
- Delay sexual debut/abstinence
- Safer sex/risk-reduction counselling for sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), drug injection users, and adolescents
- Recognize symptoms and healthcare seeking behaviour
STI/STD: True or False?
- Getting an STI from oral sex is possible
- Birth control does not protect against STIs
- You can get an STI again, even if you've had it before
- Having a virgin partner does not prevent STI transmission
- STIs are not limited to promiscuous or "trashy" people
- You can have two or more STIs at once
- You cannot get an STI from a toilet seat
- Women are not more likely to get tested for STIs
- Lesbians can get STIs
- Having an STI does not always show symptoms
Specific Measures for Delivery of Services
- Prioritize HIV and STI testing for adolescents and adults at higher risk of infection
- Encourage adolescents and adults to refer their sexual partners for testing and care
- Offer home-based HIV and other STI tests
- Establish clear pathways for further testing
- Use digital platforms and mobile health strategies to provide test results, treatment, and prevention messaging
Challenges and Root Causes of STIs
- Low socio-economic conditions
- Social stigma
- Gender inequalities
- Inability to access adequate health care systems and lack of preventative programs
- Slow policy adoption
- Lack of knowledge about sexual health
- Age restrictions
- Misconceptions among both educated and uneducated populations
- Socio-cultural factors
- Low perceived risk
- Service providers' attitude
- Cost and infrastructure reasons for not using condoms
- Weak Health Information System
Opportunities to Reduce the Burden of STIs
- Increase access and coverage to testing and treatment of STIs
- Align strategies with the WHO's Global Health Sector Strategy on STIs
- Emphasize the need for an integrated approach to STI prevention and control through securing universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and rights
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Description
This quiz covers strategies for preventing and controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including the integration of STI services, adoption of new diagnostic technologies, and promotion of prevention interventions for high-risk groups.
