Family Practice Vol. 19, No. 5, 572
© Oxford University Press 2002
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Sexual health matters in primary care.
Gill Wakley, Ruth Chambers. (214 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85775-414-X.
Clinical Research Fellow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Birmingham
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In 1990, the WHO estimated that unsafe sex accounted for 2% of worldwide adult mortality and 3.5% of morbidity. The seemingly inexorable advance of most sexually transmitted infections since then means that these proportions are now likely to be underestimates. The UK tops