Delany-Moretlwe, Sinead Mgodi, Nyaradzo Bekker, Linda-Gail Baeten, Jared M Li, Chuwen Donnell, Deborah Agyei, Yaw Lennon, Denni Rose, Scott M Mokgatle, Marcia
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Sexually transmitted infections
We investigated the prevalence, incidence and factors associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young African women seeking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). HPTN 082 was a prospective, open-label PrEP study enrolling HIV-negative sexually active women aged 16-25 years in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, and Harare, Z...
Bigler, Dina Surial, Bernard Hauser, Christoph Victor Konrad, Torsten Furrer, Hansjakob Rauch, Andri Aebi-Popp, Karoline
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Sexually transmitted infections
Access to affordable STI testing for asymptomatic persons is important to reduce STI transmission. Our testing site offers easily accessible and affordable STI testing for the general population irrespective of symptoms. Here we report STI prevalence and motivational factors of attendance. Between 2017 and 2019, all participants at our STI testing ...
Rahman, Mohammad M Johnson, Chaquetta Taylor, Stephanie N Peterman, Thomas A Bennett, Tammy S Haydel, Danielle Newman, Daniel R Furness, Bruce W
BackgroundThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that men who have sex with men (MSM) get tested annually for urethral and rectal chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhea (NG), and pharyngeal NG. There are no national recommendations to screen women and heterosexual men at extragenital sites. We assessed extragenital CT/NG screening among me...
Holt, Bethany Young Hemmerling, Anke Moore, Susanna Yang, Katherine
BackgroundContinued high incidence of HIV and other STIs, paired with rising antibiotic resistance to a number of existing treatments, warrants the development of new pharmaceutical approaches for STI prevention. Multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs) offer an innovative approach for expanding HIV/STI prevention. The majority of MPT product ca...
Jongen, Vita W Zimmermann, Hanne M L Goedhart, Marit Bogaards, Johannes A Davidovich, Udi Coyer, Liza de Vries, Henry J C Prins, Maria Hoornenborg, Elske Schim van der Loeff, Maarten F
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Sexually transmitted infections
In many countries, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users are screened quarterly for STIs. We assessed the consequences of less frequent STI testing. We also assessed determinants of asymptomatic STI and potential for onward transmission. Using data from the AMPrEP study, we assessed the proportion of syphilis, and genital, anal, and pharyngeal ...
Charin, Gideon Symonds, Ynez Scholfield, Clare Graham, Cynthia Armstrong, Heather
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Sexually transmitted infections
Among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the UK,Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoea (NG) infections commonly occur asymptomatically at extragenital sites. Therefore, MSM seeking sexual health services are offered three-site (oropharyngeal, rectal and urogenital) STI screening. To increase access to screening, some UK sexual health s...
Luetkemeyer, Anne Donnell, Deborah Dombrowski, Julia Cohen, Stephanie Grabow, Cole Brown, Clare Malinski, Cheryl Perkins, Rodney Nasser, Melody Lopez, Carolina
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BACKGROUND: Interventions to reduce sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) are needed. METHODS: We conducted an open-label, randomized study involving MSM and transgender women who were taking preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (PrEP cohort) or living with HIV in...
Ghaznavi, Cyrus Tanoue, Yuta Kawashima, Takayuki Eguchi, Akifumi Yoneoka, Daisuke Sakamoto, Haruka Ueda, Peter Ishikane, Masahiro Ando, Naokatsu Miyazato, Yusuke
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Sexually transmitted infections
The COVID-19 pandemic has had variable effects on the rates of STIs reported across the globe. This study sought to assess how the number of STI reports changed during the pandemic in Japan. We used national infectious disease surveillance data from the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Tokyo, Japan) for the period between January 2013 and...
Raccagni, Angelo Roberto Poli, Andrea Galli, Laura Spagnuolo, Vincenzo Bruzzesi, Elena Muccini, Camilla Gianotti, Nicola Canetti, Diana Mainardi, Ilaria Castagna, Antonella
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Sexually transmitted infections
To explore different sexual behaviours as risk factors for STI among men who have sex with men (MSM) living with HIV. This is a cross-sectional study on MSM living with HIV followed at the Infectious Diseases Unit of San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, with at least one diagnosis of gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia or anal human papilloma virus (HPV), bet...
Auchus, Isabella Catherine Kama, Mike Bhuiyan, Redwan Al-Karim Brown, Joelle Dean, Deborah
The Pacific Island countries of the Western Pacific Region have some of the highest rates of sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in the world. Despite this, there are few research studies that include Pacific Islanders. We conducted a narrative review of original research and surveys, including World Heal...
