STI

  • Reduction in overtreatment of gonorrhoea and chlamydia through point-of-care testing compared with syndromic management for vaginal discharge: a modelling study for Zimbabwe

    Background: Zimbabwe’s national guidelines for sexually transmitted infection (STI) management recommend that high-risk women presenting with vaginal discharge syndrome (VDS) are prescribed antibiotics for gonorrhoea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG)), chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis (CT)), trichomoniasis (Trichomonas vaginalis (TV)) and bacterial vaginosis (BV). The performance of this approach depends on its clinical interpretation and implementation. Here, we investigate…

  • Women’s, reproductive, infant, and child health

    After years of improvement, the slowing pace of progress across many reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition outcomes has demonstrated that some populations are particularly challenging to reach with life-saving products, programs, and interventions. In general, the public health community has found it difficult to define and describe these hard-to-reach populations because there…