Sexually Transmitted Infections

What Are They?

References

Chlamydia

¹ Public Health Agency of Canada. 2002. Canadian Sexually Transmitted Infections Surveillance Report CCDR2005;31S2:1-39.

²Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section, Community Acquired Infections Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada 2004. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/stdcases-casmts/index.html

Guide québécois de dépistage des infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang. Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec, 2006 ;139p.

Public Health Agency of Canada. It's Your Health - Chlamydia http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/alt_formats/cmcd-dcmc/pdf/chlamydia_e.pdf July 2004.

Genital Herpes

Public Health Agency of Canada. It's Your Health: Genital Herpes http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/diseases-maladies/herpes_e.html. August 2004.

Guide québécois de dépistage des infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang. Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec, 2006 ;139p.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

¹ UNAIDS. 2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic - Executive Summary http://www.unaids.org/bangkok2004/GAR2004_html/
ExecSummary_en/Execsumm_en.pdf. June 2004.

²Public Health Agency of Canada. HIV and AIDS in Canada. Surveillance Report to December 31, 2004. Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 2004.

³ibid.

⁴ LCDC Expert Working Group on Canadian Guidelines for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada. Canadian STD Guidelines - 1998 Edition . http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/std-mts98/pdf/std98_e.pdf. 1998.

⁵ Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, The Center for Disease Control. Fact Sheet - HIV and its Transmission. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/transmission.htm. September 2003.

⁶"Can You Be Infected with AIDS Virus from an Organ Transplant?" AIDS Alert (05/90) Vol. 5, No. 5, P. 92

Hepatitis B Virus

¹Bloodborne Pathogens Section, Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division, Health Canada, 2003.

²Ibid.

Gonorrhea

¹Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section, Community Acquired Infections Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada 2004.

Guide québécois de dépistage des infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang. Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec. 2006 ;139p.

Public Health Agency of Canada. It's Your Health: Gonorrhea http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/diseases-maladies/gonorrh_e.html. July 2004.

Trichomoniasis

Hayden, Merrill, Rowett, Dana L.Trichomoniasis. British Columbia Health Guide. http://www.bchealthguide.org/kbase/topic/
major/hw139874/descrip.htm. November 2004.

Syphilis

¹Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section, Community Acquired Infections Division,Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada 2004.

Guide québécois de dépistage des infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang. Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec, 2006 ;139p.

Last Modified: September 5, 2006