School-Based Sexually Transmitted Disease Screening: Review and Programmatic Guidance

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Felicia M T LewisM Nsuami

Abstract

School-based sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening (SBSS) was designed to provide chlamydia and gonorrhea testing, treatment, and counseling to adolescents in a school setting to overcome some of the difficulties of screening in this population. To inform STD control programs and other entities on decision making about potentially implementing this intervention, we reviewed existing published and gray literature on SBSS from 1998 to 2014. Although they are work-intensive to establish, school-based STD screening programs are a feasible and cost-effective way of testing large numbers of male and female adolescents for chlamydia and gonorrhea, and to provide counseling and treatment to almost all those who are found infected. School-based STD screening programs do not seem to reduce prevalence in either the school or the general adolescent population, although there are currently relatively few studies on large-scale SBSS. More research in this field is needed.

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Mar 21, 2017·The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine·Krishna K UpadhyaDaniel Grossman
May 18, 2018·Sexually Transmitted Diseases·M Jacques Nsuami
Jan 10, 2019·Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society·Melissa S NolanTim Erickson
Dec 22, 2017·American Journal of Public Health·Richard DunvillePatricia Dittus
Dec 4, 2019·The Journal of School Nursing : the Official Publication of the National Association of School Nurses·Li Yan WangKristina Wilson
Feb 19, 2021·Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease·Kathryn E Gannon-Loew, Cynthia Holland-Hall
Jul 23, 2021·The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine·Li Yan WangRichard Dunville

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