WHO recommends doxycycline for post-exposure STI prevention

STI infections disproportionately affect vulnerable populations including men who have sex with men and transgender women, with barriers to care including stigma, discrimination, and limited prevention options.

In a landmark shift for global sexual health policy, the World Health Organization has formally endorsed doxycycline as a post-exposure preventive measure against bacterial sexually transmitted infections, directing its guidance toward men who have sex with men and transgender women — communities long underserved by prevention science. The recommendation, grounded in mounting clinical evidence, acknowledges that condoms alone have never been sufficient to close the gap between vulnerability and protection. It arrives not as a final answer, but as a carefully constructed addition to a preventio

WHO recommends doxycycline for post-exposure STI prevention

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