Two important impediments to the control of sexually transmitted diseases in Africa are unrecognised infections and ineffective treatment of infected people with symptoms.1 We report on treatment seeking among people with symptoms in a cohort in rural Uganda and quantify the extent to which asymptomatic infections and treatment seeking behaviour may affect control of sexually transmitted disease.
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