Carlo Foresta M.D.a, , Damiano Pizzol M.D.a, Alessandro Bertoldo B.Sc.a, Massimo Menegazzo B.Sc.a, Luisa Barzon M.D.b and Andrea Garolla M.D.a a Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, Clinical Pathology Section & Centre for Male Gamete Cryopreservation, University of Padova, Italy b Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, […]
Semen washing procedures do not eliminate human papilloma virus sperm infection in infertile patients.
Pub Med.gov Fertil Steril. 2011 Apr 30. [Epub ahead of print] Foresta C, Pizzol D, Bertoldo A, Menegazzo M, Barzon L, Garolla A. Source Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, Clinical Pathology Section & Centre for Male Gamete Cryopreservation, University of Padova, Italy. Abstract OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of three sperm washing protocols […]
A National Strategy to Improve Sexual Health
JAMA
Andrea Swartzendruber, MPH; Jonathan M. Zenilman, MD
JAMA. 2010;304(9):1005-1006. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.1252
Sexual health is an integrated care-delivery and prevention concept that recognizes sexual expression as normative and encompasses preventive and treatment services throughout the life span. However, the United States lacks an integrated approach to sexual health. Public health programs such as sexually transmitted disease (STD)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and family planning are categorically funded and organizationally fragmented, and federal reproductive health programs in the past decade emphasized abstinence. As a result, sexual health indicators are poor.