Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health

• 1: The genitourinary medicine service


• 2: Ethical, medico-legal and sociocultural issues


• 3: Gender diversity


• 4: The standard clinic process and sexual health in primary care


• 5: Investigations and microscopy


• 6: Specific genitourinary situations


• 7: Syphilis


• 8: Gonorrhoea


• 9: Chlamydia


• 10: Non-gonococcal urethritis and mucopurulent cervicitis


• 11: Pelvic inflammatory disease


• 12: Prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men


• 13: Epididymo-orchitis


• 14: Sexually acquired reactive arthritis


• 15: Bacterial vaginosis and anaerobic balanitis


• 16: Trichomoniasis


• 17: Genital candidiasis


• 18: Tropical genital and sexually acquired infections


• 19: Endemic treponematoses


• 20: Proctocolitis and enteric sexually acquired infections


• 21: Urinary tract infection


• 22: Anogenital herpes


• 23: Anogenital warts


• 24: Molluscum contagiosum


• 25: Sexually acquired viral hepatitis


• 26: Other viruses


• 27: Scabies


• 28: Pediculosis pubis


• 29: Anogenital dermatoses


• 30: Cervical neoplasia


• 31: Vulval pain


• 32: Streptococcal and staphylococcal infections


• 33: Genital anomalies


• 34: Contraception including contraception for women living with HIV


• 35: Psychological aspects and sexual problems


• 36: HIV: prevention


• 37: HIV: introduction and epidemiology


• 38: Pathogenesis of HIV


• 39: Staging, classification, and natural history of HIV disease


• 40: HIV: diagnosis and assessment


• 41: HIV: primary infection


• 42: HIV: gastrointestinal disorders


• 43: HIV: hepatitis virus co-infection


• 44: HIV: disorders of the eye

Dr Mitchell completed her specialty training in GUM/HIV in the North of England in 2013 and currently works as a Consultant in Sexual Health in Plymouth. She has an MSc in Medical Anthropology and has recently spent some time working as a Consultant in the West of England Specialist Gender Identity Clinic. She is an active member of the BASHH Gender and Sexual Minorities Special Interest Group.


Dr Sankar qualified in 1977 from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. After obtaining the MRCP he completed higher specialist training in Genitourinary medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne and was appointed as consultant GUM physician in Cumbria in 1988, and in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989. He retired in November 2017. He was also an honorary lecturer at the University of Newcastle between 1990 and 2013.
Dr Sankar has served as Northern deanery's training programme director for genitourinary medicine and organised undergraduate teaching in genitourinary medicine. His special interests include HIV, complex GUM and genital dermatology.


Dr Elawad received his primary medical qualification from the University of Khartoum (Sudan) and obtained the MRCPI (Ireland) and the MRCP (UK) after taking various training posts in general internal medicine in the UK. In the North East of England Dr Elawad gained training in general internal medicine and infectious diseases and then specialist training in GUM and HIV medicine. Dr Elawad is currently working as a Consultant in Sexual Health with Northumbria Healthcare Trust and an honorary consultant in infectious diseases with the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. Dr Elawad has regular clinics with the infectious diseases unit of the RVI which has a cohort of over 1000 people living with HIV. Dr Elawad trains and supervises a number of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals.
Dr Elawad has special interest in drug treatment of HIV, sexual health needs of people living with HIV and complex GUM.


Dr Howe

This is an excellent textbook coverage of the discipline and I suspect that for primary care healthcare professionals, this would probably be their only port of call for most common and less common standard scenarios. Dr Harry Brown MBChB, Glycosmedia