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Danish study finds that STI rates in gay men increase before they launch PrEP, not after
A Danish study which was able to chart the annual incidence of the three bacterial STIs, chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis, in people attending sexual health clinics both before and after they started PrEP has found that they had more than twice as many (115% more) STI diagnoses while on PrEP than they had some time before starting it.
However it also create that much of this increase in diagnoses was due to increased testing. While the average STI testing rate in people some time before starting PrEP was in the region of 50 tests per 100 person years (i.e. a test every two years), it was three to four tests per year in people on PrEP, with tests peaking each three months due to PrEP checkups.
When this was taken into account, the diagnosis rate of any of the bacterial STIs in people on PrEP was only 35% higher than it was before PrEP, and in the case of syphilis there was no significant increase.
Glossary
chlamydia
Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection, caused by bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis. Women can get chlamydia in the cervix, rectum, or throat. Men
Why Do Gay Men Hold a Higher Chance of Getting HIV?
HIV is preventable. Here are a limited ways to reduce the risk of transmission.
1. Operate a barrier method during sex
Condoms and other barrier methods can protect against HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
If you have HIV or another STI, getting treatment and using a condom or other barrier method every time you have sex can reduce the chance of transmission.
If you don’t have an STI, you can protect yourself from acquiring an STI by using a condom or other barrier procedure every time you contain sex.
Also, it’s important to buy the right size condom for you and to use it properly.
2. Choose alternative sexual activities
Some activities carry a higher risk of HIV transmission than others.
The chance of transmission is tall during anal sex without a condom or other barrier method.
The chance of transmission is depressed during oral sex or activities that don’t involve contact with bodily fluids.
3. Limit your number of sexual partners
The chance of HIV transmission increases with the number of sexual partners a person has.
4. Get testing and treatment
If you’re an MSM, contemplate getting
New STI figures show continued increases among gay men
Latest figures published today (5 July 2016) from General Health England (PHE) show there were 434,456 sexually transmitted infections (STIs) reported in England in 2015; 54,275 of which were among gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men, a 10% increase since 2014. Chlamydia was the most commonly diagnosed STI, accounting for 46% of diagnoses (200,288 cases), followed by genital warts (68,310 cases).
The 2015 statistics represent a small decrease (3%) when compared to 2014. This is primarily due to falls in diagnoses for chlamydia (4%) and genital warts (7%).
However, in the same period there were large increases in diagnoses of gonorrhoea (11%) and syphilis (20%), continuing the rising trends in these infections of the past 5 years. These rises have occurred mostly in homosexual, bisexual or other men who acquire sex with men.
The impact of STIs remains greatest in young people under the age of 25 years, and gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. The grand fall in genital warts seen this year in adolescent women is an expected positive influence of the national HPV vaccination programme.
Sexual health - Dr Gwenda H
STIs soaring in gay men - warning
Dr Gwenda Hughes, the head of STI surveillance at Public Health England, said: "The stats published today show that too many people are getting STIs, reducing this spread must be a public health priority.
"We are particularly concerned about the large rises in diagnoses among gay men."
The notify said high levels of sex without a condom "probably account for most of this rise", but it also drew attention to the rapid spread of infections "in dense sexual networks of HIV-positive men who have sex with men".
Dr Hughes added: "Health promotion and teaching to increase risk consciousness and encourage safer sexual behaviour remain the cornerstones of STI prevention.
"Ensuring easy access to sexual health services and STI screening is a essential component in the govern of STIs."
Gay men are advised to have HIV and STI testing every year, or every three months if they possess sex without a condom or with casual partners.
Public Health England adds that all sexually active under-25-year-olds should have a chlamydia test each year and whenever they have a new sexual partner.
Dr Michael Brady, the medic
Out of the Closet, Into the Clinic: LGBT STD Statistics
Statistics show that men who have sex with men— whether they identify as homosexual, bisexual, or other— have a higher uncertainty of contracting an STD than any demographic, but many factors other than the specifics of how sex goes down in the bedroom contribute to this increased peril. Economic and societal factors such as income, the effects of emotional encourage on risk-taking, and the power and privilege structures of society have all been found to play a role in the likelihood of succumbing to an STD, especially HIV.
Approximately 4.1 percent of Americans identify as homosexual, bisexual, or other, according to a Gallup News Study. Despite making up a small fraction of the population, men who own sex with men (MSM) account for more than half of all new cases of HIV each year, due in part to an inflated chance of having sexual relations with an HIV-positive loved one. Among women, studies have shown that viral STD rates among bisexual-identifying women aged 15 to 44 years were almost three times higher than women who have sex with women exclusively. The same learn also d