Gonorrhoea situation in South Greenland in the summer of 1964.

G, Lomholt; Berg, O

doi:10.1136/sti.42.1.1

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“…Lomholt and Berg (1966) and Olsen and Lomholt (1968) treated gonorrhoea patients in Greenland with an oral dose of 1 g. probenecid, followed after 30 minutes by an intramuscular injection of 5 million units sodium penicillin G dissolved in 8 ml. of a 0 5 per cent.…”

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Treatment of gonorrhoea by one oral dose of ampicillin and probenecid combined.

Gundersen¹,

Odegaard²,

Gjessing³

1969

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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It has been shown by sensitivity testing in vitro that the effect of ampicillin on most gonococcal strains is somewhat weaker than that of penicillin G, but the effect on strains less sensitive is better with ampicillin than with penicillin G. Reyn and Bentzon (1968), in support of this, found that the 50 per cent. inhibitory concentrations for the naturally-occurring more sensitive strains were about twice as high with ampicillin as with sodium penicillin G, whereas an opposite tendency was observed in the less sensitive strains.As the great majority of relapses after treatment with penicillin occur in patients infected with gonococci with reduced sensitivity to penicillin, it is therefore possible that ampicillin could be an effective remedy in the treatment of gonorrhoea. This has proved to be the case. Willcox (1963) found a failure rate of 11 9 per cent. in male patients with uncomplicated gonorrhoea treated with a single oral dose of 0 5 g. ampicillin, which proved comparable to the results achieved with single injections of aqueous procaine penicillin. Willcox (1964) ampicillin combined with one simultaneous injection of 600,000 units procaine penicillin the relapse frequency was 3 per cent., whereas 500 patients *Received for publication February 18, 1969. treated with procaine penicillin only showed a relapse rate 11-6 per cent.Probenecid, which impedes the excretion of penicillin from the body and thus causes a higher serum concentration and a longer duration of penicillinaemia, was given, together with an intramuscular injection of sodium penicillin G, to gonorrhoea patients by Jensen, Kvorning, and Norredam (1963) Roholt (1965), can give an initial penicillinaemia of up to 200 units/ml., and after 8 hours, an average concentration of 5 units/ml. Of the 832 patients treated, there were only eight who relapsed; all had had sexual intercourse after the first treatment and all were cured after a repetition of the treatment. It is therefore highly probable that these cases were not relapses but re-infections and that the cure rate was 100 per cent.We have not been able to find any publication describing the use of an oral dose of ampicillin and probenecid combined in the treatment of gonorrhoea. The object of this paper is to show the results of such treatment. Material and Methods

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Treatment of gonorrhoea by one oral dose of ampicillin and probenecid combined.

Gundersen¹,

Odegaard²,

Gjessing³

1969

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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“…First, built environments have been associated with depression (30,3), and depression with increased risk for STIs (3). Second, poor built environments have been associated with elevated alcohol use (33), and alcohol use with increased risk for STIs (3,35). Depression is known to be high in Greenland (36), and we found evidence of the co-occurrence of alcohol use and sex in Nuuk (data not shown).…”

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“…Step II: Integration of local and global sexual health knowledge Decisions about sexual health process scales and topics to focus on for the survey were informed by both interviews with community and research informants in Greenland, and previous sexual health studies conducted in Greenland (,6,9,,), the Canadian Arctic (3)(4)(5) and in American Indian communities in the United States (6-9). We hypothesized that individual, family and social (partners, peers and community) factors were influencing sexual health and STIs in Greenland (Fig.…”

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“…We hypothesized that built environments could influence STI rates indirectly in one of two ways. First, built environments have been associated with depression (30,3), and depression with increased risk for STIs (3). Second, poor built environments have been associated with elevated alcohol use (33), and alcohol use with increased risk for STIs (3,35).…”

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Developing a culturally competent and socially relevant sexual health survey with an urban arctic community

Gesink

Rink

Montgomery-Andersen³

et al. 2010

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Objectives. To develop a culturally competent and socially relevant sexual health survey for people living in Nuuk, Greenland, aged 5 years and older. Study Design. Qualitative study with interviews. Methods. Community and research informants (n=0) were interviewed informally to identify survey topics. A sexual health survey was constructed combining local knowledge from informants with a review of sexual health literature for the Arctic and other Indigenous locations. The draft survey was distributed to community partners for commentary and revision. After translation into Danish and Greenlandic, cognitive interviews were conducted with 11 Nuuk residents, identified through snowball sampling, to both pilot test the survey and exchange social and cultural knowledge relevant to sexual health in Nuuk. The utility of this process was evaluated against implementation of the final survey to Nuuk residents enrolled in Inuulluataarneq (n=149). Results. Theme saturation was reached by the ninth interview. STI risk and self-efficacy, co-occurrence of alcohol use and sex and STI knowledge were identified as most relevant. Questions about community efficacy, culture/community involvement and identity were most sensitive. Upon implementation of the final survey, 146 of 149 participants answered all survey questions. Two Elder participants refused to answer questions about sex. Some questions had low response variability but still added to our contextual understanding and helped to build rapport with participants. Conclusions. Combining an iterative process with community-based participatory research principles and cognitive interview techniques was an effective method for developing a sexual health survey with Nuuk residents.

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“…The midwives have been trained in collecting specimens from the urethra, both for the preparation of slides and for the despatch of samples in Stuart's transport medium in thermocontainers to the nearest Gonococcus Laboratory (Lomholt and Berg, 1966). This practice of the midwives has been of considerable value in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea in both men and women.…”

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Value of vaginal and rectal cultures in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea. With special reference to areas with limited medical facilities.

Olsen¹

1971

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Gonorrhoea situation in South Greenland in the summer of 1964.

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References 3 publications

Treatment of gonorrhoea by one oral dose of ampicillin and probenecid combined.

Treatment of gonorrhoea by one oral dose of ampicillin and probenecid combined.

Developing a culturally competent and socially relevant sexual health survey with an urban arctic community

Value of vaginal and rectal cultures in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea. With special reference to areas with limited medical facilities.

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