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Enhanced screening and bacterial sexually-transmitted infection diagnoses after HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis initiation

2025-12-29 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundRecipients of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) experience higher rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia diagnoses than non-recipients. However, it is unclear if these observations reflect a causal relationship between PrEP initiation and acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (i.e., behavioral "risk compensation"), or alternatively a diagnostic bias related to PrEP recipients screening more frequently than non-recipients. MethodsWe conducted a self-controlled case series study co...

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