STDs

Health officials from the CDC and the Hawaii State Department of Public Health have identified the first cluster of gonorrhea infections in the United States to show resistance to available antibiotics. Gonococcal isolates taken last spring from seven patients in Honolulu showed resistance to azithromycin at dramatically higher levels than typically seen in the US. […]

According to data presented at the AIDS 2016 conference, the dapivirine vaginal ring can significantly reduce the transmission of HIV infection in women. After two large clinical trials were conducted and analysed in Africa, researchers found that HIV risk was cut by at least 56% in women who used the monthly ring consistently. Additional subgroup