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Julius Schachter, PhD
San Francisco STD Cooperative Research Center

Joel B. Baseman, PhD
San Antonio STD Cooperative Research Center

King K. Holmes, MD, PhD
Seattle STD Cooperative Research Center

Robert B. Jones, MD, PhD
Mid-West STD Cooperative Research Center Indianapolis, Ind

JAMA. 1992;268(19):2647.

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To the Editor.

—In a recent issue of JAMA, Mason summarized a national agenda for women's health.¹ Certainly there were many important problems listed in that agenda and we applaud every effort at improving the health of America's women. However, we wish to address a serious omission from the national agenda, that STD represents a major women's health problem in this country.

Sexually transmitted diseases are epidemic. Each year, 10 to 20 million women will acquire a sexually transmitted infection in this country. These infections cost billions of dollars in health care, but the toll in human suffering is immeasurable. Because of STDs, hundreds of thousands of women will be rendered involuntarily sterile, tens of thousands will have ectopic pregnancies or develop cancerous or precancerous lesions of the genital tract. Many women will suffer complications of pregnancy and their infants may develop perinatal infections with serious consequences. It is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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