{"id":2471,"date":"2013-11-11T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:23:31","slug":"rectal-stis-increase-risk-of-hiv-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/rectal-stis-increase-risk-of-hiv-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectal STIs increase risk of HIV infection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rectal STIs greatly increased risk of subsequent HIV infection, according to a paper published<\/a> in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em>. The authors compared the HIV incidence in people diagnosed with rectal Gonorrhoea (GC) and\/or rectal Chlamydia (CT), with control patients who did not have GC or CT. All participants had a baseline clinic visit between 2008 and 2010, and over two thirds of both groups reported unprotected anal sex.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-ups with both groups showed that of the men with rectal STIs diagnosed on the initial clinical visit, the annual incident rate of HIV diagnosis was 11%. The control group without rectal STIs had a HIV rate of 3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors comment: \u201cOur results demonstrate that rectal CT\/GC infections are objective markers for identifying persons at an exceptionally high risk for HIV.\u201d
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Whilst this is evidential that rectal STIs increase the risk of subsequent HIV contraction, the authors also suggest that rectal STIs indicate high-risk sexual behaviour which also means greater risk of exposure to HIV. The study also found that 70% of the rectal infections were asymptomatic, \u201cunderscoring the need for routine rectal screening of patients who report unprotected anal intercourse\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors concluded that \u201c[i]dentifying and treating rectal infections may reduce HIV incidence, to the extent rectal STDs increase biological susceptibility to HIV infection through epithelial erosions and alteration in host immune defences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have ever had unprotected anal sex then Better2Know can conduct a rectal swab to test for a range of STIs. The sooner the diagnosis the quicker treatment can be administered and the risk of infection with other STIs such as HIV<\/a> can be lowered. So book online or contact our friendly booking team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rectal STIs greatly increased risk of subsequent HIV infection, according to a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The authors compared the HIV incidence in people diagnosed with rectal Gonorrhoea (GC) and\/or rectal Chlamydia (CT), with control patients who did not have GC or CT. All participants had a baseline clinic visit between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1091,1088,2171,608,654,647,752,1109,1103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}