{
  "abstract": "Sexually transmissible infections in scientific literature have been called venereal diseases from the 19th century to the mid-20th century, with a focus primarily on syphilis and gonorrhoea, which was narrow and carried stigma, to sexually transmitted diseases by the mid-1970s as more infections were recognised and later to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the 1990s to include cases without symptoms and use clearer, less stigmatising language.1",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Eduardo de Menezes Hospital, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil"
      ],
      "name": "Sílvia Hees de Carvalho"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil"
      ],
      "name": "Erna G Kroon"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Expanding the concept of sexually transmitted infections: towards a more inclusive framework",
  "uid": "d6f95321-1f62-5a04-af02-03005ce62ad9"
}