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Participants will be told if BV has been detected within a fortnight of the swab being collected. We will contact you in the method of your choice and treatment can be arranged at MSHC or through your GP if you prefer. Treatment is with oral or vaginal antibiotics for 7 days.
When the study is complete we will look at how common BV is in the whole study group, and whether specific practices are related to BV. We expect the overall results to be available within a year of completion of the study. We plan to publish these results in a medical journal, but they will be published in such a way that no person can be identified (eg. 5% of 500 women had BV). Following completion of the project, a copy of the overall results can be made available to you if you would like this.
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