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Torrian Baskerville, director of HIV & Health Equity at the Human Rights Campaign, tells The Advocate how groups are preparing for a potential outbreak of the new mpox strain.
Due to the higher rates of anonymous sex and sex associated with Internet chat room, gay men have a higher risk of developing STDs.
While not considered a sexually transmitted disease, monkeypox is spread through close contact.
The Georgia Republican falsely tweeted that monkeypox was a sexually transmitted disease and then questioned why children were getting it.
Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th-century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe. ''Syphilis used to be a very rare disease,'' said Marita van de Laar, MD, an expert in sexually transmitted diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. ''I'm not sure we can say that anymore.'' Most cases of syphilis are in men, and experts point to more risky sex among gay men as the chief cause for the resurgence. But more cases are being seen among heterosexuals, both men and women, too.
Government auditors reminded the Bush administration Thursday that literature distributed by federally funded abstinence programs must contain medically accurate information about condoms' effectiveness in preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
To activists concerned about AIDS and prisoners' rights, it's an urgent, commonsense step that should already be nationwide policy -- letting inmates have condoms to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases behind bars. Yet their efforts have run headlong into a stronger political force: Authorities' desire not to encourage inmates who flout prison rules against sex. Only one state, Vermont, and five cities regularly hand out condoms to inmates.
The new guidelines specifically center at-risk sexually active gay and bisexual men and trans women.
"I went down to Greenwich Village and I went into bathhouses to essentially see what was going on there," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview.
Queer men who are up front about their sexuality to physicians are likelier to receive the recommended testing and vaccines.
