ABSTRACT
In the United Kingdom, the number of patients presenting with viral sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has rapidly increased during the past 25 years (1). Women are more susceptible than men to their acquisition. They are often present subclinically and can be transmissible both vertically and to sexual partners over many years. They can cause serious acute and long-term complications and, unlike for the bacterial STIs, drug treatment is rarely curative. Thus, their management can pose complex clinical challenges (2,3) (Table 1).
