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  1. Aug 14, 2024 · Healthcare providers can use CDC guidelines to prescribe doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy PEP) to prevent bacterial STIs. Discuss the pros and cons of doxy PEP with gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women who had a bacterial STI in the last year.

  2. Jun 5, 2024 · Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum, tetracycline antibiotic that may be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to help prevent common bacterial STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), such as syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea.

  3. May 23, 2024 · STIs are common. Many are curable - all are preventable. Provides tables of evidence in the use of Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for bacterial STI prevention.

  4. Jul 28, 2024 · Health Canada has also not approved doxycycline as a preventive treatment for STIs, but the department told CBC News it has not received any submissions to specifically review DoxyPEP.

  5. • The medicine in doxy-pep, doxycycline, has been used for many years, including to treat and prevent different types of conditions, including acne. • In studies, doxy-PEP was found to be very effective in preventing chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in groups with a high risk of STIs.

  6. Jul 13, 2023 · Take a single dose of doxycycline as soon as possible but no more than 72 hours after having condomless sex to reduce the risk of three STIs: syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. Doxy-PEP is usually given as two,100-milligram pills or one 200-milligrams tablet.

  7. Oct 11, 2023 · On October 2, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued proposed guidelines for using the antibiotic doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), an approach known as doxyPEP.