International Journal of STD & AIDS > Volume 18, Number 10 > Pp. 655-661

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Sexually transmitted disease/HIV health-care policy and service provision in Britain

R G Cooper and P D Reid

Division of Physiology, Faculty of Health, UCE Birmingham, Baker Building, Room 701, Franchise Street, Perry Barr, Birmingham B42 2SU, UK; Churchill Hall, University of Bristol, Stoke Park Road, Bristol BS9 1JG, UK

The objective of this paper was to discusses historical developments of sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV sexual health policies in Britain, principally from the 19th to the 21st century. Repeating trends were identified and a consideration of how history addresses today's urgent need for better management of sexual health is discussed. In January 1747, the first venereal disease (VD) treatment was established at Lock Hospital, London. As the 19th century passed, sexuality emerged from a conspiracy of silence and became part of social consciousness. In Victorian times, prostitution was regarded with revulsion. Renewed medical interest in VD was brought about by improvements in medical knowledge from 1900–10. In the period 1913–17, there was a significant change in sexual health policy. From 1918, treatment centres increasingly recognized the difficulties in persuading attendees to return for a complete course of treatment. AIDS in Britain wrecked havoc in the period 1981–86 with incidences of infection in several widely differing groups and public alarm fuelled by the media. In conclusion, education, advertising and public health counselling need to be moulded effectively so that the public recognize the real risks associated with unprotected sexual intercourse.

Key Words: HISTORY • HIV • POLICY • SERVICE • STD

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