‘Morning After’ Antibiotic Could Reduce STIs

The CDC just recently issued draft guidance recommending that physicians prescribe doxycycline as a preventative therapy to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea.

If these guidelines go into effect, in addition to providing general sexual health counseling and STI screening, physicians could advise these individuals to take doxycycline as a postexposure prophylactic (PEP) after having unprotected sex. This strategy, known as doxy-PEP, “represents a new approach to addressing STI prevention,” said the CDC. Read more from Scientific American here.