A study of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2017) last week in Seattle, showed that PrEP users had very high rates of sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis – in the order of 20 times higher than among HIV-negative gay men in the general population. There was also an increase in STI diagnoses from a time point a year before they sought PrEP to the date they started it. And the percentage of men r

 This article by Benjamin Ryan first appeared in POZ magazine here.  In the age of using antiretrovirals to prevent HIV transmission, some gay men have started to believe that condoms don’t matter at all, even for sexually transmitted infections.  Now that science is showing us that antiretrovirals can prevent the transmission of HIV, a new conversation about the place of condoms in gay men’s sex lives is taking place. This is thanks, for example, to a study published in July that est

I don’t know. Since stumbling across that bogus piece of research claiming that regular blow jobs from gay guys can ward off cancer in straight guys, my bs detector has been going full tilt. So I was a little sceptical when I saw this story about STI (sexually transmitted infections) testing. Yes, it appears there’s an app for that. Or it looks like there will be. And this time the source sounds authentic. First some history. Back in the days when I was young – I’m talking about t