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ArticleAnnals of family medicine

It's Time to Expand Chlamydia Treatment for Gay and Bisexual Men.

Hannan M Braun, Jessica L Taylor

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Article in Annals of family medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hannan M BraunInternal Medicine Residency, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Hannan.Braun@bmc.org.
Jessica L TaylorGeneral Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston Medical Center · USBoston University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Expedited partner therapy involves prescribing sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment for a patient's partner(s) without seeing the partner. It is approved for heterosexual partners of patients with chlamydia in most states. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against expedited partner therapy in men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM), citing limited data in this population and concerns that expedited partner therapy could discourage comprehensive STI testing, thereby driving increased HIV transmission. In this piece, we describe the case of a 33-year-old gay man on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) whose cycle of chlamydia reinfection might have been prevented by expedited partner therapy. His case highlights how new HIV prevention strategies-including PrEP and Treatment as Prevention-challenge the assumption that all MSM with chlamydia are at risk for HIV. Until more data on expedited partner therapy in MSM are available, clinicians should incorporate characteristics of patients' sexual networks in weighing the risks and benefits of expedited partner therapy.

Indexed as

BisexualityHealthcare DisparitiesHomosexuality, MaleSexual PartnersAdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsChlamydiaChlamydia InfectionsContact TracingGuidelines as TopicHIV InfectionsHumansMaleSexual and Gender MinoritiesSexual BehaviorSexually Transmitted DiseasesAnti-Bacterial Agentschlamydiaexpedited partner therapymen who have sex with menpublic health policy

Identifiers

PMID33685878
PMCPMC7939718
OpenAlexW3135063312

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