Culture, community medicine and venereal disease.
This paper reports a remarkable case of venereal disease. It discusses the serious implications and enormous difficulties of control in an Aboriginal community in which striking cultural practices play a unique and major role in disease transmission. Despite known aetiology and the ready availability of inexpensive treatment, patients continue to suffer whilst health education remains extremely difficult.
D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D003469:Culture; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000293:injuries; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples