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  • Title: Family planning and STD programs: can their efforts be merged?
    Journal: Contracept Technol Update; 1984 Jan; 5(1):4-7. PubMed ID: 12279704.
    Abstract:
    The practical limitations and the political risks of integrated family planning and sexually transmitted disease (STD) programs have kept coordinated efforts to prevent STDs and unwanted pregnancies from evolving. Willard Cates, Jr., M.D., director, division of venereal disease control, Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, speaking at the Family Planning and Reproductive Health Conference in Atlanta, identified 3 trends that might stimulate those with interest in either field to become partners in a reproductive health initiative: the spectrum of STD organisms has expanded beyond the traditionally reported agents, and family planning clinics are seeing STD agents that cause vaginitis syndromes, herpes, Chlamydia, and human papilloma viruses; there is increasing concern in STD programs with the longterm consequences of those infections, particularly those that affect reproductive capacity; and there are converging results of epidemiologic studies which demonstrate that contraceptive choices affect not only the acute risks of unplanned pregnancy and STDs, but they also influence the eventual reproductive capacity of those infected. To emphasize ways in which the 2 fields are similar, Cates cited several examples of characteristics both fields share. 1 method of combining services is already operational in Denver, where the STD clinic at the Denver General Hospital has condoms available for patients in every examining room. Franklin M. Judson, M.D., who works with Denver Disease Control, reports that efforts have been made in Denver to combine STD and family planning services. Cates wishes that STD clinics throughout the US would make condoms available to patients.
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