aidsmap report from the 6th Joint Conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)
One of the last sessions of the joint conference of BHIVA and BASHH covered BASHH’s most recent clinical guidelines.
Professor Margaret Kingston, the Chair of BASHH’s Clinical Effectiveness Group, introducing the session, told delegates the session would not, this year, be devoted to detailed updates of STI treatment guidelines. Instead, it would focus on one proposed change – whether to carry on screening gay and bisexual men and trans/non-binary people who have sex with men (GBMSM) for chlamydia and gonorrhoea every three months, or to change to screening every six months.
‘Screening’ means testing people who don’t have symptoms. Anybody with symptoms of a possible STI would still be tested.
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Source : aidsmap
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