MAY 1, 2024

You Are Never Too Old for an STI

By IDSE News Staff

Just because a patient is older is no reason not to consider a sexually transmitted infection (STI) as the reason for their presentation, according to Justyna Kowalska, PhD, from the Medical University of Warsaw, Hospital for Infectious Diseases, in Poland. 

It is important to normalize conversations around older people and sexual health, she said at the 2024 ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID),  in Barcelona, Spain.