{"id":16282,"date":"2020-11-27T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16282"},"modified":"2020-11-28T03:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T03:22:13","slug":"will-antibiotics-make-prep-less-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16282","title":{"rendered":"Will antibiotics make PrEP less effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>These two types of treatment can both be safely used together.<\/p>\n<p>PrEP use antiviral drugs to stop a viral infection.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there are no drug interactions, where one med might reduce the levels of another.<\/p>\n<p>This article below discusses using PrEP with the antibiotic doxycycline to also stop bacterial STIs. This won&#8217;t make PrEP less effective, but some researchers are worried that it might lead to antibiotic drug resistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"DoxyPEP%20for STIs: Are We Ready for Prophylactic Doxycycline for MSM on HIV PrEP?\">DoxyPEP for STIs: Are we ready for prophylactic doxycycline for MSM on HIV PrEP?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.thebodypro.com\/article\/doxypep-stis-prophylactic-doxycycline-msm-hiv-prep<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Thanks for your question. These two types of treatment can both be safely used together. PrEP use antiviral drugs to stop a viral infection. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections. Also, there are no drug interactions, where one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}