Venereal Disease in the Armed Forces

Greenberg, Jerome H.

doi:10.1016/s0025-7125(16)32334-3

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“…Another serious situation occurred at the siege of Nuremberg, between 1632 and 1648; there were about 40,000 soldiers in the Bavarian Armies compared 140,000 prostitutes and camp followers. This increase in transactional sex in the armies has led a French general to say that prostitutes "killed ten times as many men as enemy fire" (Greenberg, 1972).…”

Section: Stds Hiv and The Armymentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Practice of the UNIFIL Peacekeepers on Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Jurjus¹,

Hussein²,

Gerges³

2012

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Section: Stds Hiv and The Armymentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Practice of the UNIFIL Peacekeepers on Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Jurjus¹,

Hussein²,

Gerges³

2012

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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“…Sex industry has always thrived in the vicinity of military quarters and bases, and services of female sex workers have routinely been used by military personnelphysically active men. A French commander living in the 17 th century once claimed that commercial sex workers 'killed ten times as many men as enemy fire' (Greenberg, 1972).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It was also the time of implementing certain preventive measures such as criminal procedure in the cases of prostitution. The third period started in the 1940s from the moment penicillin was introduced as a means of treating syphilis and gonorrhea on a mass scale (Greenberg, 1972). The next, fourth period in the history of STD's started in the 1980s and lasts until today.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Army Personnel in the Military Environment

Korzeniewski¹

2012

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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“…Sexual health and the military have a long history (Greenberg 1972;Adler 1980). As early as the Peninsular War (1804-1814), a General noted that he had seen more syphilis "than had been found in the hospital of England in the whole of the previous century" (Brandt 1988).…”

Section: History Of Sexual Health and The Defence Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When first implemented during World War 1, this policy halved the STI rates in some companies (Emerson 1997). This shame and punishment approach was also adopted by moral reformers of the time (Greenberg 1972), of whom Florence Nightingale is the best known example. The control of STIs was seen as a "moral" as much as a "medical"…”

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confidence: 99%

A study of Chlamydia trachomatis: sexual risk behaviour, infection and prevention in the Australian Defence Force

Lambert¹

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There is limited research in Australia focusing on C. trachomatis infection at a population level utilising systematic non-random recruitment methodologies. In addition, little is known in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) about the prevalence of C. trachomatis and of risk behaviours that may impact on sexual health. This study utilised an existing process in the ADF, the Annual Health Assessment, to source new information about C. trachomatis infection and about sexual risk and behaviour. The outcomes of this research may assist the ADF to maintain the health of personnel and consequently a high degree of operational preparedness, and may contribute to the understanding of C. trachomatis prevalence in Australia and across the world.The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of C. trachomatis infection and to identify potential high risk populations in the ADF with a view to discussing secondary prevention interventions for the control of C. trachomatis infection within the ADF.Seven hundred and thirty-three ADF personnel were recruited into the study over a 24 month period. Participants were asked to complete an 8 page comprehensive survey about sexual behaviour and to provide a urine sample to be tested for C. trachomatis. Ethics approval was received from both the Australian Defence Human Research EthicsCommittee and the University of Queensland Medical Research Ethics Committee.The study examined ADF personnel on deployment and on base in order to provide a comparison of populations across varying work environments. Similarly, this study examined ADF personnel who had recently taken a course of doxycycline for malaria prophylaxis as part of deployment and those who had not in order to assess whether the prophylactic use of antibiotics for other purposes may have had an effect on the acquisition of C. trachomatis. This study enrolled participants from the three services in the ADF, the army, navy and air force, across 10 sites in Australia and four deployments to obtain a wide cross section of the ADF population. The findings from this study provide a profile of ADF sexual health and sexual behaviour that is comparable to the Australian population and identifies, in some instances, greater levels of safe practice and lower levels of risk behaviour. Additionally, the ADF has a lower prevalence of C. trachomatis This study examined rates of attendance at health services for sexual health concerns.18.12% (age and gender adjusted) of participants indicated they attended a health service for a sexual health concern in the previous 12 months. Females were significantly more likely to attend a health service than males (26.45% vs 16.52%; p=0.005; OR 1.81 95% CI 1.19-2.76) for a sexual health matter. Participants were three times more likely to attend an ADF health service for testing and treatment of an STI than to attend a civilian health service (16.4% vs 5.61% p<0.0001). Those who engaged in some unsafe sex were significantly more likely to attend a health service for a sexual health matter ...

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Venereal Disease in the Armed Forces

Cited by 21 publications

References 1 publication

Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Practice of the UNIFIL Peacekeepers on Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Practice of the UNIFIL Peacekeepers on Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Army Personnel in the Military Environment

A study of Chlamydia trachomatis: sexual risk behaviour, infection and prevention in the Australian Defence Force

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