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Contents:
- IT’S TIME TO EXPAND CHLAMYDIA TREATMENT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- PREVALENCE OF MYPLASMA GENALIUM GAY MEN EQUALS THAT OF CHLAMYDIA
- IT'S TIME TO EXPAND CHLAMYDIA TREATMENT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- GAY MEN SHOULD HAVE RECTAL TTS FOR CHLAMYDIA AS PART OF ROUTE SEXUAL HEALTH RE
IT’S TIME TO EXPAND CHLAMYDIA TREATMENT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
Sexually Transmted Diseas (STDs) have been creasg among gay and bisexual men. * chlamydia in gay males *
Get Vaccated: Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men have a greater chance of gettg Hepatis A, Hepatis B, and HPV. 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. LGV is the e of recent proctis outbreaks among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) worldwi.
PREVALENCE OF MYPLASMA GENALIUM GAY MEN EQUALS THAT OF CHLAMYDIA
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). 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
It's Time to Expand Chlamydia Treatment for Gay and Bisexual Men. Healthre provirs and muny perspectiv on expeded partner therapy (EPT) for e wh gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men.
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.
GAY MEN SHOULD HAVE RECTAL TTS FOR CHLAMYDIA AS PART OF ROUTE SEXUAL HEALTH RE
Doxy-PEP as an STI Preventn Strategy: Consiratns for dividuals and healthre provirs of gay or bisexual men or transgenr women. Gay men should have rectal tts for chlamydia as part of their route sexual health re, vtigators remend an article published the onle edn of Sexually Transmted Infectns. Rearchers found that more gay men had rectal fectn wh chlamydia than had urethral chlamydia or rectal gonorrhoea.
However, rectal ttg for the fectn is not offered to gay men attendg most UK sexual health clics. Prev studi have found that between 7 and 9% of gay man attendg sexual health clics have rectal fectn wh chlamydia, and that such fectns are often whout symptoms. In recent years, outbreaks of the sexually transmted fectn lymphogranuloma venerm (LGV) have been observed gay men the UK and several other dtrialised untri.