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sti treatment strategies

STIS; presumptive treatment

Sex workers have high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), many of them easily curable with antibiotics. STIs as co-factors and frequent unprotected exposure put sex workers at high risk of acquiring HIV and transmitting STIs and HIV to clients and other partners. Eliminating STIs reduces the efficiency of HIV transmission in the highest-risk commercial sex contacts–those where condoms are not used. This paper reviews two STI treatment strategies that have proven effective with female sex workers and their clients.

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