This comprehensive yet concise Handbook covers all aspects of sexual health, contraception and HIV medicine. All content has been updated from the second edition, with some additional chapters to reflect changes in the socio-political climate, clinical practice, and evidence-based medicine.
This comprehensive yet concise Handbook covers all aspects of sexual health, contraception and HIV medicine. All content has been updated from the second edition, with some additional chapters to reflect changes in the socio-political climate, clinical practice, and evidence-based medicine.
Dr Mitchell completed her specialty training in GUM/HIV in the North of England in 2013 and currently works as a Consultant in Sexual Health in Plymouth. She has an MSc in Medical Anthropology and has recently spent some time working as a Consultant in the West of England Specialist Gender Identity Clinic. She is an active member of the BASHH Gender and Sexual Minorities Special Interest Group. Dr Sankar qualified in 1977 from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. After obtaining the MRCP he completed higher specialist training in Genitourinary medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne and was appointed as consultant GUM physician in Cumbria in 1988, and in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989. He retired in November 2017. He was also an honorary lecturer at the University of Newcastle between 1990 and 2013. Dr Sankar has served as Northern deanery's training programme director for genitourinary medicine and organised undergraduate teaching in genitourinary medicine. His special interests include HIV, complex GUM and genital dermatology. Dr Elawad received his primary medical qualification from the University of Khartoum (Sudan) and obtained the MRCPI (Ireland) and the MRCP (UK) after taking various training posts in general internal medicine in the UK. In the North East of England Dr Elawad gained training in general internal medicine and infectious diseases and then specialist training in GUM and HIV medicine. Dr Elawad is currently working as a Consultant in Sexual Health with Northumbria Healthcare Trust and an honorary consultant in infectious diseases with the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. Dr Elawad has regular clinics with the infectious diseases unit of the RVI which has a cohort of over 1000 people living with HIV. Dr Elawad trains and supervises a number of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Dr Elawad has special interest in drug treatment of HIV, sexual health needs of people living with HIV and complex GUM. Dr Howe studied medicine and obtained an intercalated honours degree in developmental biology at the University of Edinburgh, then moved to the North East of England for speciality training in genitourinary medicine and HIV. She has contributed to national guideline writing for the British HIV Association and started her first consultant post with NHS Highlands, based in Inverness, in Autumn 2018. Dr Price is a consultant working at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. He works in Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine and in this time has led the acute admissions unit in Newcastle. He was Director of Infection Prevention and Control in the trust for 6yrs. He helps to look after a cohort of over 1000 patients living with HIV and is part of the ID on call team providing a regional service and advice regarding infectious diseases and HIV. He has a regular hepatitis clinic and set up the first hepatitis outreach clinic to a drug rehabilitation centre in the North East. He has a wide research interest and has published/presented on the basic science of hepatitis, various clinical aspects of blood borne viruses and the complications of HIV medication. More recently he has become lead in infection in the Newcastle's NIHR Medtech and In vitro diagnostics Co-operative and has been involved in the clinical development of in-vitro diagnostics including point of care tests.
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1: The genitourinary medicine service 2: Ethical, medico-legal and sociocultural issues 3: Gender diversity 4: The standard clinic process and sexual health in primary care 5: Investigations and microscopy 6: Specific genitourinary situations 7: Syphilis 8: Gonorrhoea 9: Chlamydia 10: Non-gonococcal urethritis and mucopurulent cervicitis 11: Pelvic inflammatory disease 12: Prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men 13: Epididymo-orchitis 14: Sexually acquired reactive arthritis 15: Bacterial vaginosis and anaerobic balanitis 16: Trichomoniasis 17: Genital candidiasis 18: Tropical genital and sexually acquired infections 19: Endemic treponematoses 20: Proctocolitis and enteric sexually acquired infections 21: Urinary tract infection 22: Anogenital herpes 23: Anogenital warts 24: Molluscum contagiosum 25: Sexually acquired viral hepatitis 26: Other viruses 27: Scabies 28: Pediculosis pubis 29: Anogenital dermatoses 30: Cervical neoplasia 31: Vulval pain 32: Streptococcal and staphylococcal infections 33: Genital anomalies 34: Contraception including contraception for women living with HIV 35: Psychological aspects and sexual problems 36: HIV: prevention 37: HIV: introduction and epidemiology 38: Pathogenesis of HIV 39: Staging, classification, and natural history of HIV disease 40: HIV: diagnosis and assessment 41: HIV: primary infection 42: HIV: gastrointestinal disorders 43: HIV: hepatitis virus co-infection 44: HIV: disorders of the eye 45: HIV: respiratory disorders 46: HIV: neurological disorders 47: HIV: dermatological disorders 48: HIV: pyrexia of unknown origin 49: HIV: endocrine and metabolic disorders 50: HIV: renal disorders 51: HIV: cardiovascular disorders 52: HIV: musculoskeletal disorders 53: HIV: reticulo-endothelial disorders 54: HIV: malignancies 55: HIV: management 56: HIV: pregnancy 57: HIV: travel
