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The case of an HIV-seropositive man with gonorrhea, syphilis, genital warts, and chancroid is described. Multiple sexual partners, genital ulcer diseases, and lack of circumcision may have predisposed him to HIV infection. As indicated by his CD4/CD8 ratio of 0.5, his immunological status was not very compromised. Other factors were therefore probably behind these multiple sexually transmitted diseases (STD). This 30-year old man was inadequately treated for a long time for urethral discharge and genital ulcer disease, and ultimately collapsed on the job with a comprised central nervous system. Bacterial infection related to the multiple STDs could certainly have caused this collapse. The time demands of this man's work, the lack of medical facilities to diagnose and treat such conditions, his unprotected sexual behavior with multiple partners, and broader socioeconomic conditions which separate wage- earning males from their families in Africa conspire to produce multiply-afflicted cases such as these.
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PMID:Multiple sexually acquired diseases occurring concurrently in an HIV positive man: case report, diagnosis and management. 150 24

In men urethral discharge is commonly caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis. Both organisms cause an acute anterior urethritis and infected men usually present with symptoms of urethritis. A proportion of men with urethral infection may remain asymptomatic. Amongst women the common cause of vaginal discharge is vaginitis caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, Candida albicans and anaerobic bacterial infection (bacterial vaginosis). However, cervicitis caused by N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis also causes vaginal discharge. Cervicitis is the more serious cause of vaginal discharge as the aetiologic agents may lead to infection ascending above the internal os of the cervix resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease and other complications.
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PMID:Syndromic management of sexually transmitted diseases. Part 2--The management of genital discharge. 1010 31