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Effect of screening young men for
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of Chlamydia trachomatis screening from the perspective of health economics: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- An agent-based platform for simulating the impact of chlamydia vaccine in the US population.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Testing paradox may explain increased observed prevalence of bacterial STIs among MSM on HIV PrEP: A modeling study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ethnic disparities in prevalence and screening rates of sexually transmitted infections.European journal of microbiology & immunology · 2025Review
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- Cost-effectiveness of Check It: A Novel Community-Based Chlamydia Screening and Expedited Treatment Program for Young Black Men.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
- Increasing incidence rates of sexually transmitted infections from 2010 to 2019: an analysis of temporal trends by geographical regions and age groups from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Controversies and evidence on Chlamydia testing and treatment in asymptomatic women and men who have sex with men: a narrative review.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Review
- Changes in Sexual Behavior Related to the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Women in New Orleans, LA.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2021Article
- Generating a heterosexual bipartite network embedded in social network.Applied network science · 2021Article
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Abstract
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designWe created an individual-based network model to simulate a realistic chlamydia epidemic on sexual contact networks for a synthetic population (n=5000). The model is calibrated to the ongoing routine screening among African American (AA) women in the USA and detailed a male-screening programme, Check It, that bundles best practices for Ct control. We used sensitivity analysis to quantify the relative importance of each intervention component.
settingCommunity-based venues in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
participantsHeterosexual AA men, aged 15 to 24, who had sex with women in the past 2 months.
interventionVenue-based screening, expedited index treatment, expedited partner treatment and rescreening.
resultsWe estimate that by annually screening 7.5% of the AA male population in the age-range, the chlamydia prevalence would be reduced relatively by 8.1% (95% CI 5.9% to 10.4%) in AA women and 8.8% (95% CI 6.9% to 10.8%) in AA men. Each man screened could prevent 0.062 (95% CI 0.030 to 0.094) cases in men and 0.204 (95% CI 0.143 to 0.267) cases in women. The model suggested the importance of intervention components ranked from high to low as venue-based screening, expedited index treatment, expedited partner treatment and rescreening.
conclusionThe findings indicated that male-screening has the potential to substantially reduce the prevalence among women in high-prevalence communities.
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