Open AccessThe Potential Impact of a Gel-Based Point-of-Sex Intervention in Reducing Gonorrhea Incidence Among Gay and Bisexual Men: A Modeling Study
Author(s) -
Michael W Traeger,
Tom Tidhar,
Martin Holt,
Chris Williams,
Edwina Wright,
Mark Stoové,
Nick Scott,
Margaret Hellard
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000001239
Subject(s) - gonorrhea , medicine , condom , demography , incidence (geometry) , population , men who have sex with men , transmission (telecommunications) , gynecology , sexually transmitted disease , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , immunology , syphilis , physics , electrical engineering , sociology , optics , engineering
Increases in sexually transmitted infections among gay and bisexual men (GBM) over the past decade have coincided with declines in condom use and rapid uptake of HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). We explored the impact of an antimicrobial gel-based point-of-sex intervention (gel-PSI) with a lower efficacy for reducing gonorrhea transmission risk than condoms on population-level gonorrhea incidence among GBM in Victoria, Australia.