Sexually transmitted infections keep rising up
Vicente Soriano 1, Ana Treviño 2
1 UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain; 2 UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Centre, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: Ana Treviño, Email not available
Abstract
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to rise almost everywhere. The surge recognized following the 1st year of the COVID-19 pandemic is far from stopping yet. Increases in casual sex encounters, online appointments throughout websites, concomitant drug use (chemsex), and a perceived false protection under HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) have all built a perfect storm for the unprecedented ongoing STI outbreak (Pedrosa et al. AIDS Rev 2024; 26: 121-9; Soriano et al. AIDS Rev 2023; 26: 127-35).
