Women with viral STIs face dilemmas in negotiating condom use and would like direct safe sex advice from clinicians.

摘要

Context The study highlights experiences of high-risk women in communicating condom use with their partners and discussing with healthcare providers the impact of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on their intimate relationships. Clinicians' views on the effective sexual health communication with their female patients were also examined. The study focused on women diagnosed with genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) and human pap-illoma virus (HPV). Global estimates of HSV in people aged 15-49 is 536 million worldwide and women are disproportionately infected (315 million vs 221 million in men).In addition, the prevalence of HPV in women worldwide has been estimated to be as high as 11.4°/o.