Latest Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) MMWR Recommendations and Reports August 4, 2006 /55(RR11);1-94 provides comprehensive sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines for 2006. While the intended audience is the treatment community, there is plenty of straightforward (even quite basic) information of value for prevention (which in my view is always better than treatment).

Such information shoud be given as wide circulation as possible. Whatever information can contribute to prevention should be put to maximum use. I also consider it valuable and important for consumers to have access to the best-practice guidelines that should be followed by any health professional who may be providing services and recommending treatments.

The report is substantial. It is well laid out and can be skimmed to find relevant material. It can be easily accessed in full here: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5511a1.htm.