An assessment was made of how the HIV epidemic may have influenced
sexually transmitted disease (STD) epidemiology in Uganda, and how HIV
would affect the effectiveness of syndromic STD treatment programmes
during different stages of the epidemic. The dynamic transmission model
STDSIM was used to simulate the spread of HIV and four bacterial and one
viral STD. Model parameters were quantified using demographic,
behavioural, and epidemiological data from rural Rakai and ot
