Community based study of treatment seeking among subjects with symptoms of sexually transmitted disease in rural Uganda

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Abstract
The methods and preliminary results of the Rakai STD control for AIDS prevention study have been described in detail elsewhere.2 Adults enrolled in the initial survey provided specimens (blood, urine, vaginal swabs) to determine baseline prevalence of infection. They were allocated to intervention or control group according to community. At follow up 10 months later the behaviour of people experiencing symptoms between surveys was documented to estimate the proportion of symptomatic infected people expected to seek treatment. We then fitted both baseline prevalence of infection and treatment seeking between surveys to the Piot-Fransen STD control model.3