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SUMMARY

The Hidden Epidemic

Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Thomas R. Eng and William T. Butler, Editors

Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1997

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COMMITTEE ON PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

William T. Butler,* Chair, Chancellor,

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Nancy E. Adler,* Director,

Health Psychology Program, and

Vice Chair,

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California

E. Richard Brown, Director,

Center for Health Policy Research, and

Professor of Public Health,

School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Virginia A. Caine, Director,

Marion County Health Department, Indianapolis, Indiana

David D. Celentano, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences,

Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Paul D. Cleary, * Professor of Health Care Policy and Social Medicine,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Margaret A. Hamburg, * Health Commissioner,

New York City Department of Health, New York, New York

King K. Holmes, * Director,

Center for AIDS and STD, and

Professor of Medicine,

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Edward W. Hook III, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology,

Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama

Loretta Sweet Jemmott, Associate Professor of Nursing, and Director,

Office of HIV Prevention Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dorothy Mann, Executive Director,

Family Planning Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Patrick H. Mattingly, Senior Vice President of Planning and Development,

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Brookline, Massachusetts

Kathleen E. Toomey, State Epidemiologist and Director,

Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Atlanta, Georgia

A. Eugene Washington, Professor and Chair,

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California

*

Institute of Medicine member.

Served through September 1995.

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Catherine M. Wilfert, Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology,

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Jonathan M. Zenilman, Associate Professor of Medicine,

Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Staff

Thomas R. Eng, Senior Program Officer

Leslie M. Hardy, Senior Program Officer (through July 1995)

Jennifer K. Holliday, Project Assistant

Marissa Weinberger Fuller, Research Associate

Michael A. Stoto, Director,

Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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Acknowledgments

This report represents the collaborative efforts of many organizations and individuals, without whom this study would not have been possible. The committee extends its warm thanks to the organizations and individuals mentioned below.

The staff of the following organizations and agencies provided critical advice and data in preparing this report: Advocates for Youth (Kent Klindera), the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (David Atkins and Carolyn DiGuiseppi), Alan Guttmacher Institute (Pat Donovan, Jackie Forrest, Lisa Kaeser, and Dave Landry), the American Academy of Pediatrics (Victor Strasburger), the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, the American Social Health Association (Peggy Clarke, Joan Cates, and Nikki Vagnes), Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, Association of State and Territorial Health Officers, Center for Media and Public Affairs (Dan Amundson), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Susan DeLisle, Shahul Ebrahim, Alan Friedlob, Joel Greenspan, Robert Johnson, William Kassler, Judy Lipshutz, William Levine, Eric Mast, Frank Mahoney, John Miles, John Moran, Craig Shapiro, Jack Spencer, Mike St. Louis, Cathleen Walsh, Judy Wasserheit, and Gary West), East Coast Migrant Health Project (Oscar Gomez), The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Suzanne Delbanco), National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Reproductive Health (Susan Wysocki), the National Cancer Institute, the National Center for Farm Worker Health (Bobbi Ryder), the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (Ed Harrison), the National Institutes of Health, Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)

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(Carolyn Patierno), State Family Planning Administrators (Lynn Peterson), and the World Health Organization (Antonio Gerbase and Kevin O'Reilly). The following colleagues also provided valuable assistance to the committee: Jane Brown, Margaret Chesney, Jim Kahn, Laura Koutsky, and Richard Rothenberg.

The following persons generously shared their knowledge with the committee through their active participation in the committee workshops: Sevgi Aral, Cornelius Baker, Bobbi Baron, Marie-Claude Boily, Stanley Borg, Robert Bragonier, Allan Brandt, Ward Cates Jr., William Darrow, Gray Davis, Frank Beadle de Palomo, Caswell Evans, Jonathan Freedman, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Carol Glaser, James Goedert, James Haughton, William Kassler, Paul Kimsey, Janet Kirkpartick, Edward Laumann, William Levine, Steve Morin, Kevin O'Reilly, Frank Plummer, John Potterat, Gary Richwald, Tracy Rodriguez, Philip Rosenberg, Alfred Saah, Marilyn Keane Schuyler, Stanley Shapiro, Sten Vermund, and Maria Wawer.

The directors and staff of the following facilities and programs graciously hosted the committee during its site visits to Atlanta and Chicago. In Atlanta: The Center for Black Women's Wellness; Dekalb County Board of Health (Stuart Brown); Emory/Grady Teen Services Program; Fulton County Health Department STD Clinic (Ruby Lewis-Hardy and Pradnya Tambe); Georgia Department of Human Resources, Epidemiology and Prevention Branch (Jack Kirby and Mark Schrader); Grady Memorial Hospital Family Planning Program; Kaiser Permanente, Prevention and Practice Analysis Department; SisterLove, Inc., Women's AIDS Project; West Central Health District (Dee Cantrell); and West End Medical Centers, Inc. In Chicago: Austin Community Academy Teen Health Clinic; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois; Chicago Department of Public Health (John Wilhelm); Chicago STD/HIV Prevention Program (Romina Kee and Lisa Krull); Cook County Hospital HIV Primary Care Center, Smart Start Program, Women and Children HIV Program; Erie Family Health Center; Illinois Department of Public Health (John Lumpkin and Charlie Rabins); Night Ministry; Ounce of Prevention Fund, Toward Teen Health Program, Orr Adolescent Health Center; Planned Parenthood of Chicago; Vida Sida; Stop AIDS Chicago; and West Town Neighborhood Health Center, Young Adult Clinic.

The following individuals participated in the planning meeting for the study: Charles Carpenter (chair), Peggy Clarke, Jim Curran, Mary Faye Dark, Gray Davis, Patsy Fleming, Helene Gayle, H. Hunter Handsfield, Maurice Hilleman, Penny Hitchcock, Mark Hounshell, James Kahn, Lawrence Lewin, Heather Miller, Constance Nathanson, Geoff Nichol, Michael Osterholm, Nancy Padian, Thomas Quinn, Mark Smith, P. Frederick Sparling, Beth Unger, Judy Wasserheit, Roy Widdus, and Zeda Rosenberg.

Of particular note, the following individuals directly contributed to the report by drafting commissioned papers in their areas of expertise. A review paper on the relationship between substance use and STDs by John Beltrami, Linda Wright-DeAguero, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, and Brian Edlin was critical to

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the report, and sections of their paper were replicated in the discussion of substance use and STDs. A paper by Jeffrey Kelly provided important background for the drafting of sections regarding behavioral interventions in STD prevention. Marie-Claude Boily's important work on modeling the impact of STDs on HIV transmission is included as an appendix. In addition, Joanna Siegel's major review of the economic costs of STDs was the primary basis for the committee's cost estimates and is also included in the appendix of the report.

Numerous staff at IOM, the National Research Council, and the National Academy Press (NAP) contributed to the development, production, and dissemination of this report. Leslie Hardy served as study director during its first year; Marissa Fuller organized the committee's site visits and provided research assistance; Jennifer Holliday provided comprehensive administrative support; Mike Stoto, Karen Hein, and Ken Shine provided valuable advice and direction; Mona Brinegar handled the financial accounting of the study; Mike Edington provided editorial assistance; Claudia Carl and Janice Mehler coordinated the report review process; and Dan Quinn and Molly Galvin coordinated press activities. NAP staff included Dawn Eichenlaub (book production); Barbara Kline Pope and Brooke O'Donnell (marketing); Estelle Miller (page layout); Francesca Moghari (cover design); Terrence Randell (Internet listing); and Sally Stanfield (editor). In addition to IOM staff, we are grateful to Andrea Posner for her numerous valuable editorial contributions, to Caroline McEuen for copy-editing, to Kim Greene for assistance with the survey of managed care organizations, and to Mary Fielder and Ron Nelson for their research assistance.

The following agencies and organizations and key staff generously provided funding and generated support within their institutions for this study: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Jim Curran [now with Emory University], Helene Gayle, Jack Spencer, and Judy Wasserheit), Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. (Gray Davis), the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Mark Smith and Suzanne Delbanco), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Penny Hitchcock), the Office of Research on Women 's Health of NIH (Vivian Pinn and Anne Bavier), Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical (James Kahn), and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (Vincent Ahonkai, Paul Blake, and Geoff Nichol). Their willingness to sponsor a study on the prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases is no small commitment, given the sensitive and controversial nature of this public health issue. Their encouragement and support are gratefully acknowledged.

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 1

 

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

 

 2

 

THE NEGLECTED HEALTH AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF STDS

 

 

 

Broad Scope and Impact of STDs

 

 

 

Health Consequences of STDs

 

 

 

Impact of STDs on HIV Transmission

 

 

 

Economic Consequences of STDs

 

 

 

Conclusions

 

 3

 

FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC

 

 

 

Biological Factors

 

 

 

Social Factors

 

 

 

Secrecy as a Contributing Factor

 

 

 

Conclusions

 

 4

 

PREVENTION OF STDs

 

 

 

Issues in Prevention

 

 

 

Reducing Exposure and Transmission

 

 

 

Reducing Duration of Infection

 

 

 

Conclusions

 

 5

 

CURRENT STD-RELATED SERVICES

 

 

 

Clinical Services

 

 

 

National Surveillance and Information Systems

 

 

 

Training and Education of Health Professionals

 

 

 

Funding of Services

 

 

 

Conclusions

 

 6

 

ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE NATIONAL SYSTEM TO PREVENT STDs

 

 

 

Laying the Foundation for a National System

 

 

 

Strategy 1: Promote Healthy Sexual Behaviors

 

 

 

Strategy 2: Develop Leadership

 

 

 

Strategy 3: Focus on Adolescents and Underserved Populations

 

 

 

Strategy 4: Ensure Access to Services

 

 

 

Collaborating to Improve Services

 

 

 

Concluding Statement

 
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APPENDICES

 

 A.

 

Sexually Transmitted Pathogens and Associated Diseases, Syndromes, and Complications

 

 B.

 

Characteristics of Major STDs in the United States

 

 C.

 

Transmission Dynamics of Co-existing Chlamydial and HIV Infections in the United States

 

 D.

 

Estimates of the Economic Burden of STDs: A Review of the Literature with Updates

 

 E.

 

Summary of Empirical Studies of HIV Prevention Mass Media Campaigns

 

 F.

 

Recommended Interventions During the Periodic Health Examination for the Prevention of STDs, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 1996.

 

 G.

 

Summary of Workshop on the Role of Managed Care Organizations in STD Prevention

 

 H.

 

STD-Related Services Among Managed Care Organizations Serving High-Risk Populations

 

 I.

 

Examples of Community-based Programs for Providing Clinical Services for STDs

 

 J.

 

Committee and Staff Biographies

 

 

 

INDEX

 
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