Faxelid E, Tembo G, Ndulo J, Krantz I
Department of International Health and Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sex Transm Dis. 1996 Jul-Aug;23(4):289-92.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are a major health problem in Zambia. Partner notification, which is a recommended strategy to decrease STD, must be improved.
To assess whether individual counseling of patients with STD, combined with contact slip(s), had any impact on the proportion of sex partners traced in an urban setting in Zambia.
A randomized trial comprised of 94 women and 302 men with STD.
Women and men in the intervention group informed more partners than did those in the control group. In the intervention group, 1.8 partners per man was treated compared to 1.2 in the control group (P < 0.001). There was no difference between the two groups of women. There was a gradual decline from numbers of partners informed to numbers of partners treated according to the patient to number of contact slips filed.
Individual counseling of men with STD improved partner notification.
性传播疾病（STD）是赞比亚的一个主要健康问题。性伴侣通知是降低性传播疾病的一项推荐策略，必须加以改进。
评估对性传播疾病患者进行个体咨询并结合联系单，是否会对赞比亚城市地区追踪到的性伴侣比例产生影响。
一项随机试验，包括94名患有性传播疾病的女性和302名患有性传播疾病的男性。
干预组中的女性和男性告知的性伴侣比对照组更多。在干预组中，每名男性告知了1.8个性伴侣接受治疗，而对照组为1.2个（P < 0.001）。两组女性之间没有差异。从告知的性伴侣数量到根据患者接受治疗的性伴侣数量再到提交的联系单数量，呈逐渐下降趋势。
对患有性传播疾病的男性进行个体咨询改善了性伴侣通知情况。
