International Focus: Testing, Surveying, and Improving Testing Proficiency

10:45 AM

3F 1

Cross Sectional Study of the Predictors of the Number of Attendees at a Sexual Health Service 2002 – 2012

Eric PF Chow, PhD, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and Nimal Gamagedara, MBBS, MSc [Community Medicine], MD [Community Medicine], Epidemiology unit, Department of Health Services, Provincial Directorate of Health Services, Badulla, Sri Lanka, Provincial Directorate of Health Services, Uva province, Sri Lanka, Badulla, Sri Lanka

10:55 AM

3F 2

Chlamydia Trachomatis and Neisseria Gonorrhoea Point-of-Care Testing in the UK: Is This a Necessary Venture or an Impractical Folly?

Lindsay Atkinson, ., Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Dayan Vijeratnam, BM, MRCP, DipGUM, Department of Sexual Health, St Mary's Hospital Portsmouth, UK, Portsmouth, United Kingdom and Raj Patel, FRCP, Senior Lecturer University of Southampton, Department of Sexual Health, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

11:05 AM

3F 3

Factors Associated with STD Testing Among Self-Identified Lesbian and Bisexual Women in the US and UK

Lisa Lindley, DrPH, MPH, CHES, Department of Global & Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Vanessa Schick, PhD, Division of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX and Joshua Rosenberger, PhD, Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

11:15 AM

3F 4

Asking about Sex in General Health Surveys: Comparing Data Collected By the 2010 Health Survey for England with the Third Natsal Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles

Philip Prah, MSc, University College London, London, United Kingdom

11:25 AM

3F 5

WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre for Syphilis Serology Proficiency Testing Program at the CDC

Allan Pillay, PhD, Laboratory Reference & Research Branch, DSTDP, CDC, Atlanta, GA, Susan Kikkert, AB, LRRB, DSTDP, CDC, Atlanta, GA, Mary L. Kamb, MD, MPH, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, Nathalie Broutet, MD, PhD, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland and Kevin Karem, PhD, DSTDP, CDC, Atlanta, GA

3F International Focus: Testing, Surveying, and Improving Testing Proficiency