{"id":908,"date":"2012-09-27T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=908"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:39:20","slug":"new-study-condoms-prevent-stis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/new-study-condoms-prevent-stis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Condoms prevent STIs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A new <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sti.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2012\/09\/20\/sextrans-2012-050618.abstract?papetoc\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> by the Department of Health Behaviour in the United States has looked at whether condoms prevent non-viral STIs.\u00a0 A non-viral STI includes: Chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis,\u00a0 ureaplasma and mycoplasma.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/condoms-2-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7734\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/condoms-2-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/condoms-2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/condoms-2-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/condoms-2-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/condoms-2-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the results of the study may not be very surprising &#8211; we have all long been told that condoms (other than abstinence) are one of the best ways of&nbsp; preventing the spread of any STI and STD, it is probably a good idea to check, which is what the research team have done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>929 patients who were receiving treatment for an STI were studied, and they received a daily prompt to ask them whether they had had heterosexual vaginal intercourse.&nbsp; The study concluded that used correctly and consistently: condoms greatly reduced the transmission of non-viral STIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better2Know can test for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/page\/std-sti-testing\">viral and non-viral STIs and STDs<\/a> including HIV at any of its nationwide private clinics.&nbsp; Please call us using the number provided at the top of the page for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by the Department of Health Behaviour in the United States has looked at whether condoms prevent non-viral STIs.\u00a0 A non-viral STI includes: Chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis,\u00a0 ureaplasma and mycoplasma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[990,571,752,628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8015,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/8015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}