Nursing: Best Practices to Reduce STI Infection Among Young Adults

This report reviews five research articles to identify best practice strategies for reducing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young individuals. It highlights interventions such as partner notification, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and social networking awareness campaigns. The review emphasizes the importance of early detection, safe-sex education, and community programs for STI screening, particularly among vulnerable populations like adolescent girls and the LGBTI community. The conclusion underscores that awareness, education, and early screening are crucial for preventing STI transmission and promoting sexual health among young adults.

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Introduction:
Sexually transmitted diseases have recently been witnessed to affect the global
population at an exponential rate. Statistical figures reveal that, 36.9 percent of the world
population is affected with AIDS. Further, it has also been stated that 1.2 million people die
every year because of AIDS. Evidences also mention that every year almost 2.0 million
people develop HIV infection (Deeks et al., 2013). This paper would focus on reviewing 5
research articles to develop an idea about the best evidence practice strategies that could be
undertaken so as to reduce the rate of infection among young individuals.
Ferreira, A., Young, T., Mathews, C., Zunza, M., & Low, N. (2013). Strategies for
partner notification for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews, (10).
In this research the authors have talked about an interesting intervention known as the
partner notification. This helps in the notifying the sexual partners of the affected patients to
get an idea about the probability of their partners to be susceptible to STIs. The use of PI
could help in the prevention of the relapse of the infection in the patients and the same time
would also help in effectively treating the undiagnosed STI prevalence among the partners.
The authors included 17,578 participants and conducted 26 trials to measure the efficacy of
the PN program and the findings revealed an early detection of STI infection among the
unreported sexual partners (Ferreira et al.,2013).

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Fonner, V. A., Dalglish, S. L., Kennedy, C. E., Baggaley, R., O’reilly, K. R., Koechlin, F.
M., ... & Grant, R. M. (2016). Effectiveness and safety of oral HIV preexposure
prophylaxis for all populations. AIDS (London, England), 30(12), 1973.
The authors of this paper performed a rigorous systematic review in order to establish
the efficacy of PrEP in the reduction of HIV infection. PrEP comprises of the chemical
compounds tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and it has been stated by the authors that oral
administration of PrEP could help in controlling the advent of HIV infection (Fonner et al.,
2016). The comparative findings formulated by the researchers showed that the population
segment using PrEP showed reduced prevalence of the infection compared to the group that
did not use the intervention.
Young, S. D., Cumberland, W. G., Lee, S. J., Jaganath, D., Szekeres, G., & Coates, T.
(2013). Social networking technologies as an emerging tool for HIV prevention: a
cluster randomized trial. Annals of internal medicine, 159(5), 318-324
This paper focuses on creating an awareness based on social networking technology.
The authors followed a randomized control trial where an awareness group was formed on
facebook that involved participants belonging to the MSM category (Young et al., 2013). The
participants were educated about the disease and were offered free of cost home based HIV
testing and prevention strategies. Interestingly, the social networking technology had an
overwhelming effect and showed positive outcome in terms of creating awareness among the
young individuals.
Boyer, C. B., Greenberg, L., Chutuape, K., Walker, B., Monte, D., Kirk, J., ... &
Adolescent Medicine Trials Network. (2017). Exchange of sex for drugs or money in

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adolescents and young adults: an examination of sociodemographic factors, HIV-related
risk, and community context. Journal of community health, 42(1), 90-100.
This research paper aimed to evaluate the social and demographic factors that are
responsible for the prevalence of STI in young individuals. The authors conducted
community survey responses in order to access the social health determinants responsible for
the occurrence of the disease. The findings revealed that casual sexual intercourse for drugs
and money common among the LGBTI community led to the transmission of the infection
(Boyer et al., 2017). The responses were further analysed on the basis of statistical
interpretation.
Dellar, R. C., Dlamini, S., & Karim, Q. A. (2015). Adolescent girls and young women:
key populations for HIV epidemic control. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18,
19408.
The authors in this paper examined that the major infected population group were the
female aged 15 to 24 years of age. It contributed to almost 30% of the affected population set
(Dellar et al., 2015). Hence, the authors proceeded with devising strategies to reduce the
prevalence of the disease among this age group. The study effectively proved that the
scenario was serious in light of the disease condition in the Southern Region of Africa. The
primary reason for the same was identified to be the poor social health determinants. Further,
the findings suggested a need to incorporate awareness regarding ‘safe-sex’ and maintenance
of sexual hygiene. Community programs could help assist the mentioned population group
with STI screening tests and facilitate early detection.

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Conclusion:
Therefore, it can be said that STI is extremely common among young individuals.
Early detection can successfully help in the prevention and the transmission of the infection
to healthy people. Awareness and education about the use of condoms, reproductive barriers,
early screening and STI testing can help in the prevention of the disease.

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References:
Boyer, C. B., Greenberg, L., Chutuape, K., Walker, B., Monte, D., Kirk, J., ... & Adolescent
Medicine Trials Network. (2017). Exchange of sex for drugs or money in adolescents
and young adults: an examination of sociodemographic factors, HIV-related risk, and
community context. Journal of community health, 42(1), 90-100.
Deeks, S. G., Lewin, S. R., & Havlir, D. V. (2013). The end of AIDS: HIV infection as a
chronic disease. The Lancet, 382(9903), 1525-1533.
Dellar, R. C., Dlamini, S., & Karim, Q. A. (2015). Adolescent girls and young women: key
populations for HIV epidemic control. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18,
19408.
Ferreira, A., Young, T., Mathews, C., Zunza, M., & Low, N. (2013). Strategies for partner
notification for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews, (10).
Fonner, V. A., Dalglish, S. L., Kennedy, C. E., Baggaley, R., O’reilly, K. R., Koechlin, F. M.,
... & Grant, R. M. (2016). Effectiveness and safety of oral HIV preexposure
prophylaxis for all populations. AIDS (London, England), 30(12), 1973.
Young, S. D., Cumberland, W. G., Lee, S. J., Jaganath, D., Szekeres, G., & Coates, T. (2013).
Social networking technologies as an emerging tool for HIV prevention: a cluster
randomized trial. Annals of internal medicine, 159(5), 318-324.