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Practicing safer sex and having regular check ups are ways to ensure you enjoy healthy, fulfilling and enjoyable sex throughout your life. If you're sexually active, especially if you're having sex with multiple partners, you should have regular check ups for STIs every months.

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Address 1. Thank you for subscribing! Sorry something went wrong with your subscription Please, try again in a couple of minutes Retry. Show references Cannon C. Primary care of gay men and men who have sex with men. Accessed Dec. Sexually transmitted infections treatment guidelines, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can get it through sex, including oral-anal sex "rimming" and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated food and drink. Symptoms of hepatitis A can appear up to 8 weeks after sex and include tiredness and feeling sick nausea.

Testing should be performed at all three sites swab of oropharynx and anorectum, and first pass urine , and syphilis serology should be performed every time human immunodeficiency virus HIV test or HIV treatment monitoring is performed. All patients who are eligible under the Australian guidelines should be actively offered PrEP.