Top row (from left to right): Maria Carolina Barbosa da Silva, Brittany Cooke, Erik Curtis, Mahmood Gohari, David Kormos, Mindy Lam| EPIC Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium
A clinical trial of a new antibiotic found that it works just as well as a current drug regimen for treating gonorrhea infections. This is important because the bacteria that causes gonorrhea has become resistant to most existing antibiotics.| American Sexual Health Association
The FDA just approved a new, fully at-home test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis. The tests, which is only for women, will be available without a prescription. Users can collect their own sample and have results in less than 30 minutes.| American Sexual Health Association
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a serious infection in the upper genital tract/reproductive organs of women and a leading cause of infertility.| American Sexual Health Association
New data on STIs from CDC reveals 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported in the US in 2022, with rates of syphilis have up an alarming 80% since 2018.| American Sexual Health Association