Extragenital Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Among Louisiana Parish Health Units, 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that men who have sex with men (MSM) get tested annually for urethral and rectal chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhea (NG), and pharyngeal NG. There are no national recommendations to screen women and heterosexual men at extragenital sites. We assessed extragenital CT/NG screening among men and women at Louisiana's Parish Health Units (PHU).

Methods

The Louisiana STD/HIV/Hepatitis Program piloted extragenital screening at 4 PHUs in February 2016 and expanded to 11 PHUs in 2017. Sexual histories were used to identify gender of sex partners and exposed sites. Because of billing restrictions, up to 2 anatomical sites were tested for CT/NG.

Results

From February 2016 to June 2019, 70,895 urogenital and extrageni

SUBMITTER: Rahman MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10190115 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature