Dr Alan Tang from Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, discusses approaches to setting up and running a prison based sexual health service with Éamonn O’Moore, unit director for Thames Valley Health Protection Unit of the HPA.

See also:
Review: How to run a prison sexually transmitted infection service

King Holmes (director, Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington; past president of the IUSTI) talks to Patricia Garcia (dean of the School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru; regional director for IUSTI in Latin America and the Carribbean) about the progress in treating STIs in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Professor Garcia discusses what a recent survey by The Latin American and Caribbean Association for the Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ALAC-ITS) revealed about STI programmes in the region, including rapid needle testing in Brazil and Peru’s national AIDS STI programme.

See also:
STI management and control in Latin America: where do we stand and where do we go from here?
STI supplement: Global Sexual Health: prioritising the challenges and identifying the solutions

Dr Colm O’Mahony (consultant at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK) talks to Professor Christopher Fairley (director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia) about the near disappearance of genital warts in Australia’s young women following the start of their human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme.

They also discuss the UK’s decision to provide Cervarix, rather than Gardasil, through its HPV programme.

See also:
The near disappearance of genital warts in young women 4 years after commencing a national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme

Catherine Ison and Gwenda Hughes, Health Protection Agency UK, and Craig Tipple, Imperial College London, discuss strategies for the surveillance and treatment of antibiotic resistance bacteria.

See also:
High prevalence of macrolide resistant Treponema pallidum strains in a London centre

Michael Waugh discusses with David Goldmeier how to recognise sexual addiction in the sexual health clinic.

See also:
How to recognise sexual addiction in the sexual health clinic setting?

In this STI podcast, Andy Winter (consultant in sexual health and HIV, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, UK) talks to Gary Brook (Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK) about the effectiveness of electronic records in chlamydia and gonorrhoea treatment and partner notification.

See also:
A prospective study of the effectiveness of electronic patient records in rapid-cycle assessment of treatment and partner notification outcomes for patients with genital chlamydia and gonorrhoea infection

Cath Mercer, an associate editor with STI, asks Lisa Langhaug (Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, London, UK) about her work investigating the best way to ask Zimbabwean youth about their sexual health.

See also:
How you ask really matters: randomised comparison of four sexual behaviour questionnaire delivery modes in Zimbabwean youth

Khalil Ghanem (associate editor on STI) talks to James Blanchard
(University of Manitoba) Charlotte Watts (London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine) and Sevgi Aral (Center(s) for Disease Control) about the
phenomenon of emergent properties, and how it relates to STI control.

In this episode of the STI podcast, Richard Crosby from the University of Kentucky talks to Mary Ott from Indiana University about her research on condom use, and attitudes towards, in 14-16 year-old boys.

See also:
Condoms and developmental contexts in younger adolescent boys

Cathy Ison (director of the Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory, HPA) talks to David Barlow (consultant physician at the Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital) about the future of treating and testing for gonorrhoea.