The demographic and clinical profiles of women presenting with vaginal discharge syndrome at primary care facilities in South Africa: Associations with age and implications for management.

CONCLUSIONS: Although older women with VDS were less likely than younger women to have STIs, a significant proportion of them did have an infection with STI pathogens. Age alone was not a good criterion for discriminating between women with and without infection with STI pathogens. Other ways of improving the VDS algorithm performance are needed, as is better integration of HIV and STI prevention and treatment. PMID: 30421718 [PubMed - in process]
Source: South African Medical Journal - Category: African Health Tags: S Afr Med J Source Type: research