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Overview
Uncircumcised men are at three times greater risk than circumcised men for contracting chancroid from an infected partner. Chancroid is a risk factor for contracting HIV, due to their ecological association or shared risk of exposure, and biologically facilitated transmission of one infection by the other.
Risk Factors
- Promiscuity
- Unprotected sexual intercourse
- Travel to endemic areas in Africa, southeast Asia and parts of Latin America[1]
- Living in areas with high crack cocaine use and prositution[1]
- Lack of circumcision in males.[2]
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chancroid. UpToDate (September 25, 2015). http://www.uptodate.com/contents/chancroid#H3 Accessed January 19, 2016.
- ↑ Van Howe, R. S. (2007). "Genital ulcerative disease and sexually transmitted urethritis and circumcision: a meta-analysis". International Journal of STD & AIDS. 18 (12): 799–809. doi:10.1258/095646207782717045. ISSN 0956-4624.
- ↑ Dyer JR, Eron JJ, Hoffman IF, Kazembe P, Vernazza PL, Nkata E; et al. (1998). "Association of CD4 cell depletion and elevated blood and seminal plasma human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA concentrations with genital ulcer disease in HIV-1-infected men in Malawi". J Infect Dis. 177 (1): 224–7. PMID 9419194.