[Translated article] Sexually Transmitted Infections During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain

Tarin-Vicente, E.J.; Cudós, Elena Sendagorta; Servera-Negre, Guillermo; Romero, Iker Falces; Martín, Juan Ballesteros; Martín-Gorgojo, Alejandro; Artieda, Alicia Comunión; Marquez, C. Salas; Pinto, Pedro Herranz

doi:10.1016/j.ad.2022.01.014

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“…In contrast to the studies discussed above, other work in PrEP users found that before starting PrEP, the incidence of STI was high and increasing in these individuals, and after starting PrEP, STI rates remained high, although they did not increase [ 14 , 82 ].…”

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“…There has been an exponential increase since the 2010s, which seems to have stabilized at around 50,000 cases per year in Spain [ 13 ] ( Figure 3 ). In a multicenter study carried out during the state of COVID-19 alarm in our country, in a population of 674 subjects with STI, microbiological results were obtained in 519, 10% corresponding to HSV [ 14 ]. As in the rest of STI, the risk of genital herpes is higher in MSM, sex workers and people with greater sexual promiscuity.…”

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Sexually transmitted infections in Spain: Current status

Del Romero,

Moreno Guillén,

Rodríguez-Artalejo

et al. 2023

Rev Esp Quimioter

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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) are a major public health problem. The problems inherent to their diagnosis, treatment and prevention have to do not only with their nature, but also with organizational issues and overlapping competencies of the different health authorities in Spain. The real situation of STI in Spain, at present, is poorly known. For this reason, the Scientific Committee on COVID and Emerging Pathogens of the Illustrious Official College of Physicians of Madrid (ICOMEM) has formulated a series of questions on this subject which were distributed, not only among the members of the Committee, but also among experts outside it. The central health authorities provide very high and increasing figures for gonococcal infection, syphilis, Chlamydia trachomatis infection and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV). Both HIV infection and Monkeypox are two important STI caused by viruses in our environment, to which it should be added, mainly, Herpes simplex virus (HSV) and Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. Emerging microorganisms such as Mycoplasma genitalium pose not only pathogenic challenges but also therapeutic problems, as in the case of N. gonohrroeae. The pathways that patients with suspected STI follow until they are adequately diagnosed and treated are not well known in Spain. Experts understand that this problem is fundamentally managed in public health institutions, and that Primary Care and Hospital Emergency Services, together with some institutions that deal monographically with this problem, are the recipients of most of these patients. One of the most serious difficulties of STI lies in the availability of the microbiological tests necessary for their diagnosis, particularly in this era of outsourcing of microbiology services. Added to this is the increased cost of implementing the latest generation of molecular techniques and the difficulties of transporting samples. It is clear that STI are not diseases to which the entire population is equally exposed and it is necessary to have a better knowledge of the risk groups where to focus the necessary interventions adapted to their characteristics. It should not be forgotten that STI are also a problem in the pediatric age group and that their presence can be a marker of sexual abuse with all that this implies in terms of health care and medicolegal activity. Finally, STI are infections that are associated with a high cost of care for which we have very little information. The possibility of expanding the automatic performance of laboratory tests for STI surveillance through laboratory routines is encountering ethical and legal problems that are not always easy to solve. Spain has created a ministerial area of specific attention to STI and there are plans to improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these problems, but we still lack the necessary evidence on their impact. We cannot forget that these are diseases that transcend the individual and constitute a Public Health problem.

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Section: What Impact Is Prep Having On Sti Incidence?mentioning

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Section: What Is the Reality Of Other Sti Caused By Viruses In Spain?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexually transmitted infections in Spain: Current status

Del Romero,

Moreno Guillén,

Rodríguez-Artalejo

et al. 2023

Rev Esp Quimioter

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“…Our results align well with a finding in China about no changes in condom usage during this pandemic (Li et al, 2020), while other surveys showed condoms use to a lesser degree during the pandemic in China (Booton et al, 2020) and to a higher degree in Wales (Gillespie et al, 2021). Another harmonious study mentioned in Spain although the sexually transmitted infections (STI) incidence was diminished during the pandemic situation, people’s sexual behavior was not safe yet (Tarin-Vicente et al, 2022).…”

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Sexuality Transmitted Infection in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Non-Pandemic Time

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On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization recognized the SARS-CoV-2 infection as a pandemic. The pandemic itself in addition to its containment measures affects individuals’ lifestyles and welfare including their sexual behaviors. Thus, we hypothesized that sexually transmitted infection (STI) incidence may be changed and so we evaluate urethritis incidence as the most common STI in men and some other related factors. Two cross-sectional surveys during the first 6 months of 2019 and 2020 were undertaken and data were collected from 11 urology offices located in different parts of the capital city. In total, 34,611 male participants were included in our study, and 191 (.55%) patients’ clinical diagnoses were urethritis. The urethritis incidence significantly decreased from 149 of 17,950 (.83%) to 42 of 16,661 (.25%) individuals in the same period of the years 2019 and 2020, respectively ( p-value < .001). There was a higher percentage of single ( p-value = .049) and older ( p-value < .001) urethritis patients in the first 6 months of the year 2020 compared with 2019. Our survey provided urethritis incidence, demographics, symptoms, and treatment characterization. As our results show, the proportion of urethritis patients in all populations admitted to urologist offices had dramatically decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prior. The indirect effects of the pandemic and its containment measures on people’s sexual health should be noticed and an appropriate reaction and policy-making are recommended to manage issues properly in different aspects of sexual health.

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[Translated article] Sexually Transmitted Infections During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain

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Sexually transmitted infections in Spain: Current status

Sexually transmitted infections in Spain: Current status

Sexuality Transmitted Infection in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Non-Pandemic Time

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