STDs News

Researchers found that a questionnaire successfully identified patients with STIs who can be safely evaluated for penicillin allergy by skin test or by a two-step graded oral challenge, according to a study.

WHO reported a “major” increase in STIs in 2022, specifically highlighting an increase in syphilis and an insufficient decline in new HIV and viral hepatitis infections.

The CDC advised clinicians for a second time to be on alert for possible mpox cases in travelers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who may be infected with a deadlier strain of the virus than the one that caused an outbreak in 2022.

The addition of azithromycin to daily trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole treatment among pregnant women with HIV did not reduce the rate of malaria or bacterial sexually transmitted infections at delivery, data show.

BOSTON — In this video, Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board Member Alan Dow, MD, MSHA, FACP, highlights important takeaways from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

In the past decade, STDs have increased among women aged at least 55 years, highlighting the importance of discussing sexual partners, sexual history and condom use with all patients, regardless of age.

Belize, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines became the latest nations to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced.

Variations in receiving adequate and timely treatment for syphilis during pregnancy highlight the need to address missed opportunities in syphilis testing and treatment, according to results of a surveillance cohort study.

We caught up with Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference to ask how he got “Hooked on ID.”

Patients with syphilis experienced higher rates of CV events like stroke, MI and death compared with a matched control group, according to a large-scale, real-world study published in European Heart Journal.