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Syndromic Approach for STD's Management
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Hemanta Kumar Kar. Syndromic Approach for STD's Management. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2007;20(2):162–167.
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Sexually transmitted diseases infections/(STD/STI) and reproductive tract infections (RTI) present a huge burden of disease. As per recent STI prevalence study (2003), over 5% of adult population in India suffers from STIs. Based on this, it is estimated that 30 million people are infected with STI/RTI in India and half of them only symptomatic. Several studies have shown that individuals with STI have a significantly higher chance of acquiring and transmitting HIV during sex... Both ulcerative and non-ulcerative infections have been found to increase this risk. It is well known that risk of.