Antibiotics could dramatically reduce STIs, study says, raising tough new questions
A new study about an approach to reducing sexually transmitted infections could spark controversy.
The spread of some sexually transmitted infections could potentially be dramatically reduced by instructing people who have had unprotected sex to take antibiotics within 24 hours after the intercourse, a new study suggests.
But such a strategy, which was tested in a population of men who had frequent unprotected sex with a number of male sex partners, could spark a controversy over the use of antibiotics and the general threat of growing antibiotic resistance.
“My message with that study would be that we need to do more
