Prevalence of Myplasma genalium gay men equals that of chlamydia | aidsmap

Contents:

• STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
• PREVALENCE OF MYPLASMA GENALIUM GAY MEN EQUALS THAT OF CHLAMYDIA
• IT’S TIME TO EXPAND CHLAMYDIA TREATMENT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
• GAY MEN SHOULD HAVE RECTAL TTS FOR CHLAMYDIA AS PART OF ROUTE SEXUAL HEALTH RE

STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS

Get Vaccated: Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men have a greater chance of gettg Hepatis A, Hepatis B, and HPV. While anyone who has sex n get an STD, sexually active gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) are at greater risk.

Homophobia, stigma and discrimatn n negatively fluence the health of gay and bisexual men. CDC remends sexually active gay and bisexual men get tted for:. Get Vaccated: Gay and bisexual men are at greater risk for hepatis A and B, and human papillomavis (HPV).

PREVALENCE OF MYPLASMA GENALIUM GAY MEN EQUALS THAT OF CHLAMYDIA

People who are more likely to get chlamydia clu gay, bi, and other men who have sex wh men, and young people. If you intify as a gay, bi or any other man who has sex wh men, then you n get tted at LGBT Foundatn through our full sexual health screeng clic partnership wh The Northern. Gay, bi, and other men who have sex wh men are more at risk of gettg LGV.

The prevalence of Myplasma genalium – an STI that many people have never heard of – among gay and bisexual men is parable to that of chlamydia, Atralian rearchers report Sexually Transmted Infectns.

Whereas they generally remend that gay and bisexual men should be routely screened for fectn wh gonorrhoea and chlamydia the urethra, rectum and throat, they do not remend screeng for Myplasma genalium. Given the nsistenci, a team of rearchers led by Dr Rosie Latimer om the Sexual Centre, Aled Health, Melbourne, pooled the rults of 46 studi orr to terme the prevalence of Myplasma genalium fectn gay men at the urethra, rectum and throat. The clud studi volved a mimum of 50 gay men and were nducted between 1981 and 2018.

IT’S TIME TO EXPAND CHLAMYDIA TREATMENT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

In this piece, we scribe the se of a 33-year-old gay man on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) whose cycle of chlamydia refectn might have been prevented by expeded partner therapy. Until more data on expeded partner therapy MSM are available, clicians should rporate characteristics of patients’ sexual works weighg the risks and benefs of expeded partner wordsexpeded partner therapychlamydiamen who have sex wh menpublic health policyA CASE OF RECURRENT CHLAMYDIA HIGHLIGHTS DISPARITIES IN GUIDELINESOur patient, a sexually active, 33-year-old gay man, was worried about his HIV risk, so he sought out HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Early rults show promise At this pot, most of the rearch has foced on how well doxy-PEP works when offered to gay and bisexual men, and transgenr women — groups that have disproportnately high rat of STIs.

"It's been workg, " says Keh Byrd, a gay man who liv Fort Lrdale and was prcribed doxycycle by his primary re doctor. "I have certaly talked wh a lot of my iends about , but I don't thk 's very mastream the gay muny at this pot, " he says.

PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

Gay and bisexual men are also at risk sce chlamydia n spread through oral and anal sex.

Gay or bisexual men and pregnant people should also get tted for chlamydia. 5Incince of chlamydia per 100, 000 people by statePrevalence of chlamydia gay and bisexual men by anatomil seAs we n see om the table below, rectal and penile chlamydia are much more prevalent than oral chlamydia among homosexual that reason, all anal-receptive mal should have a chlamydia swab, addn to a ure tt/penile swab, as a route part of STD A negative tt one anatomic area do not exclu the possibily that you have chlamydia another area.

053%Multiple sexual acts77%76%Rat of transmissn of chlamydia gay and bisexual men(multiple sexual acts)Here we summarize chlamydia transmissn gay and bisexual men by transmissn route.

GAY MEN SHOULD HAVE RECTAL TTS FOR CHLAMYDIA AS PART OF ROUTE SEXUAL HEALTH RE

Homosexual malA small study found that 47% of male partners of fected gay and bisexual men had rectal chlamydia.