An online survey conducted in the Netherlands suggests that informal use of doxycycline post-exposure and pre-exposure ...

The increase in tetM prevalence in 2020 coincided with the shift away from azithromycin and toward doxycycline for treatment of chlamydia, and the increase that started in the summer of 2022 coincided ...

DoxyPEP was found to be about 65% effective at reducing the incidence of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis in a recent study. About 500 men who have sex with men and transgender women were ...

New research analyzing an online survey of 1,633 respondents found 15% recent use of doxycycline post- and pre-exposure ...

In San Francisco, cases of chlamydia and early syphilis fell steadily and were roughly halved at the 13-month mark after implementation of doxyPEP in the city, one report showed, while at Kaiser ...

Of nearly 12,000 people being treated for HIV, nearly one in five -- more than 2,250 -- received doxyPEP within its first year of availability, researchers found.. The team then looked at STI test ...

DoxyPEP is short for Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis. It means taking the antibiotic doxycycline after a sexual encounter to minimize the chances of acquiring an STI such as gonorrhea or ...

The early rollout of doxyPEP — a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline after sex — has contributed to a decline in sexually transmitted infections in Northern California, according to a pair of studies ...

Medicine may be about to achieve a long-sought goal: a “morning-after pill” to prevent sexually transmitted infections. It could sharply reduce soaring rates of illness and huge health care costs.

But insofar as the CDC’s proposed endorsement of DoxyPEP normalizes what to most people is distasteful conduct, and, by passing no explicit moral judgment on it, in effect asserts that it is ...

Prescribing doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) to gay and bisexual men and transgender women after a sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis instead of focusing on specific ...