This guideline offers recommendations on diagnosis, treatment regimens and health promotion principles needed for the effective management of genital molluscum, including management of the initial presentation and recurrences. The Primary focus of the guideline is on infection which affects the genital area and has a sexual mode of transmission. This is an update to the guideline previously published in this journal in 2014.
HIV Infections , Molluscum Contagiosum , Sexual Health , Adult , Genitalia , HIV Infections/diagnosis , HIV Infections/drug therapy , Health Promotion , Humans , Molluscum Contagiosum/diagnosis , Molluscum Contagiosum/therapy
These guidelines are an update for 2015 of the 2008 UK guidelines for the management of syphilis. The writing group have piloted the new BASHH guideline methodology, notably using the GRADE system for assessing evidence and making recommendations. We have made significant changes to the recommendations for screening infants born to mothers with positive syphilis serology and to facilitate accurate and timely communication between the teams caring for mother and baby we have developed a birth plan. Procaine penicillin is now an alternative, not preferred treatment, for all stages of syphilis except neurosyphilis, but the length of treatment for this is shortened. Other changes are summarised at the start of the guideline.
Practice Guidelines as Topic , Syphilis Serodiagnosis , Syphilis , Disease Management , Humans , Syphilis/diagnosis , Syphilis/drug therapy , Treponema pallidum/immunology , United Kingdom
The Clinical Effectiveness Group of the British Association for Sexual Health has updated their methodology for the production of national guidelines for the management of sexually transmitted infections and related conditions. The main changes are the adoption of the GRADE system for assessing evidence and making recommendations and the introduction of a specific Conflict of Interests policy for Clinical Effectiveness Group members and guideline authors. This new methodology has been piloted during the production of the 2015 British Association for Sexual Health & HIV guideline on the management of syphilis.
Practice Guidelines as Topic , Sexually Transmitted Diseases/diagnosis , Sexually Transmitted Diseases/therapy , Guidelines as Topic , Humans , United Kingdom
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Disease Management , Molluscum Contagiosum/drug therapy , Molluscum contagiosum virus/drug effects , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Adolescent , Contact Tracing , Female , HIV Infections/prevention & control , Humans , Male , Molluscum contagiosum virus/isolation & purification , Reproductive Health/standards , United Kingdom
