‘The war on STIs has failed’: Reinventing the way we tackle sexual disease

published on May 23, 2016 by Anna Mehler Paperny, in Global News

The Edmonton doctor and infectious disease specialist is seeing more people with more severe sexually transmitted infections — young men with chlamydia and hemorrhagic proctitis who say they’ve had 30-odd partners in the past six months and didn’t use condoms half the time; seemingly healthy people who’ve been on intensive HIV treatment for ages and have contracted syphilis, gonorrhea, hepatitis C from unprotected sex.

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Julio Montaner, who made a name for himself internationally through his work in HIV/AIDS treatment as prevention, does not buy the hypothesis that advances in tackling HIV/AIDS have made people have riskier sex.

“It has been long part of the folklore that if and when a treatment became available for HIV, or a prevention became available, that it could lead to behavioural dis-inhibition,” he said.

“The truth is that whenever this issue has been monitored carefully there is no evidence that people change their behaviour as a result of accessing treatment or even pre-exposure prophylaxis.”

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