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VIDEO: PrEP, HIV infection associated with bacterial STIs
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NEW ORLEANS — Douglas S. Krakower, MD, a staff physician in the division infectious diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, adjunct faculty member at the Fenway Institute, and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses his presentation at IDWeek 2016 on the role of HIV infection and pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, in the acquisition of bacterial sexually transmitted infections.
In a study that included almost 20,000 men, Krakower and colleagues found that PrEP use and HIV infection were independently associated with increasing rates of bacterial STIs.
“In terms of what this means for recommendations for clinical and public health, we think that it’s going to be important for clinicians who are taking care of patients with HIV or utilizing PrEP to be very vigilant about screening, testing, counseling, diagnosis and treatment of bacterial STIs in the current biomedical prevention era,” Krakower says.
Disclosure: Krakower reports receiving unrestricted research support from Gilead Sciences.