Public Health Departments Providing Sexually Transmitted Disease Services

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Landry ◽  
Jacqueline Darroch Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Disease ◽  
Transmitted Disease ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Public Health Departments

scholarly journals An imperial laboratory: the investigation and treatment of treponematoses in occupied Haiti, 1915-1934

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1106
Author(s):  
Antony Dalziel McNeil Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Disease ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Transmitted Disease ◽  
International Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Unique Event ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

This article examines anti-treponematoses work as part of US occupation public health policy in Haiti, a unique event in the history of international health. Yaws was highly prevalent in Haiti, but occupation doctors initially ignored it because of its close association with syphilis and stigmas attached to sexually transmitted disease. This changed when C.S. Butler asserted that yaws was “innocent” and that the two diseases should therefore be considered as one. Treatment increased as an anti-treponematoses campaign was now believed to hold great benefits for the occupation’s paternalist and strategic aims, even though it ultimately failed. This work reflected Haiti’s status as a public health “laboratory” which affected Haitian medicine for years to come and significantly influenced future campaigns aimed at disease eradication.

scholarly journals Sexually Transmitted Disease Program Evolution in Response to Changes in the Public Health Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 668-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion W. Carter ◽  
Katherine K. Hsu ◽  
Penny S. Loosier ◽  
Brandy L. Peterson Maddox ◽  
Sonal R. Doshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Disease ◽  
Transmitted Disease ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
The Public ◽  
Program Evolution

scholarly journals Depoliticize Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Commentary

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Marvin S. Amstey
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Disease ◽  
Transmitted Disease ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
State Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus

Public-health policy is inconsistent in its approach to the sexually transmitted disease human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Nearly every health agency has politicized the reporting, finding, and contacting of HIV cases. There is also no consistency among the various state health departments and the various federal health agencies. Until we have a uniform health policy that treats HIV infection as every other reportable sexually transmitted disease, we will make little progress toward controlling its inevitable increase in both cases and costs.

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