Doxy PEP Clinical Guidelines for Bacterial STI Prevention Update with Dr. Jonathan Mermin

The day before the 81st Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) started, Dr. Jonathan Mermin, Director of the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at CDC, spoke with HIV.gov Director Miguel Gomez about the recently released Doxy PEP clinical guidelines for bacterial STI prevention.

CDC recommends healthcare providers discuss doxy PEP with all gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women with a history of at least one bacterial STI (syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea) in the last 12 months. If offering doxy PEP, healthcare providers should write a prescription for self-administration of 200 mg of doxycycline within 72 hours of sex.