Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Short-Term Correctional Institutions: Summary of Evidence Reviewed for the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines

Young persons entering US jails and youth detention facilities have high rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added STD screening guidelines specific to correctional settings to the 2010 STD Treatment Guidelines. This article summarizes publis...

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Published in:Sexually transmitted diseases 2013-09, Vol.40 (9), p.679-684
Main Authors: Spaulding, Anne C., Miller, Jamie, Trigg, Bruce G., Braverman, Paula, Lincoln, Thomas, Reams, Patricia N., Staples-Horne, Michelle, Sumbry, Anitra, Rice, Dana, Satterwhite, Catherine Lindsey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Chlamydia
Chlamydia Infections - epidemiology
Chlamydia Infections - prevention & control
Chlamydia trachomatis
Chlamydia trachomatis - isolation & purification
Correctional institutions
Disease control
Disease prevention
Female
Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea - epidemiology
Gonorrhea - prevention & control
Humans
Juvenile detention centres
Male
Mass Screening - methods
Neisseria gonorrhoeae - isolation & purification
Positive affect
Prevalence
Prisons
Review
Screening
Sexually transmitted diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - prevention & control
Syphilis - epidemiology
Syphilis - prevention & control
United States - epidemiology
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:Young persons entering US jails and youth detention facilities have high rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added STD screening guidelines specific to correctional settings to the 2010 STD Treatment Guidelines. This article summarizes published evidence from 1990 to 2009 used to develop the recommendations. The literature supports routine screening of adolescents and young women (aged ≤35 years, or on the basis of local institutional prevalence data) for chlamydia and gonorrhea because of high prevalence and the subsequent risk of adverse reproductive outcomes. Chlamydia positivity among young women (aged
ISSN:0148-5717
1537-4521
DOI:10.1097/01.olq.0000431353.88464.ab