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Venereology, Volume 1, Issue 2

September 2022 - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,608 Views
11 Pages

13 September 2022

Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is key in HIV prevention. Young people aged 15–24 years carry a significant burden of new infections globally, but VCT uptake is low in this population. The study assessed university freshmen’s will...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,012 Views
13 Pages

A Review of Monkeypox: The New Global Health Emergency

  • Kritika Srinivasan Rajsri and
  • Mana Rao

5 September 2022

Monkeypox, once a rare zoonotic disease, has been endemic to some African countries since its original identification among humans in 1970. Since then, cases in non-endemic regions have been linked to returning travelers or those who had contact with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,803 Views
12 Pages

10 August 2022

Background: South Africa recently adopted HIV self-test technology (HIVST) to improve HIV testing and encourage earlier treatment initiation in working populations with a low uptake of conventional testing approaches. This study investigates the impa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
11,481 Views
17 Pages

Phototherapy-Based Treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections—Shining Light into Unexplored Territory

  • Nour Mammari,
  • Michael R. Hamblin,
  • Pauline Rauger,
  • Laurence Boyer and
  • Mihayl Varbanov

New therapeutic strategies are urgently needed to overcome drawbacks in the treatment of some infections, particularly sexually transmitted infections (STI). STIs are easily spread by the transmission of various bacteria, viruses, and parasites with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,931 Views
9 Pages

Ophthalmic Manifestations among HIV Patients at the Main Tertiary Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Jalikatu Mustapha,
  • Enanga Sonia Namanga,
  • Baimba Idriss,
  • Daniel Sesay,
  • Darlinda F. Jiba,
  • James B. W. Russell,
  • Mathew J. Vandy,
  • Gibrilla F. Deen,
  • George A. Yendewa and
  • Sulaiman Lakoh

Ophthalmic diseases are common among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in developing countries. However, there are currently no published studies on ophthalmic complications among PLHIV in Sierra Leone. We conducted a cross-sectional study of PLHIV pres...