The United States is set to roll out a powerful new weapon in the long fight against sexually transmitted infections: a decades-old antibiotic repurposed as a preventative pill.- Two-thirds reduction -
Reported cases of the three bacterial infections grew to 2.5 million in the United States in 2021, following about a decade of growth.
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As rates of STIs continue to skyrocket across the U.S., a growing number of physicians are prescribing an antibiotic as a way to prevent some infections.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The United States is set to roll out a powerful new weapon in the long fight against sexually transmitted infections: a decades-old antibiotic repurposed as a preventative pill.