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couple with a doctor - Research involving UCL has shown the effectiveness of a world-first contact tracing method to identify, test and treat sex partners of people with chlamydia - a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that affects 250,000 people in the UK each year. Accelerated Partner Therapy (APT) is a contact tracing method, in which healthcare professionals assess sex partners of people with chlamydia by phone before giving the patient a package of antibiotics and STI self-sampling kits to deliver to their partner(s). This all happens when the patient is in clinic getting treatment. While in theory, this technique could be used to help test and treat any number of sexual partners, the trial showed that it was best suited to people and their established and emotionally connected partners, rather than their one-off partners. The study, led by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), has been published in The Lancet Public Health journal. Professor Claudia Estcourt (UCL Institute for Global Health, GCU, and NHS consultant) who led the development of APT and the large-scale trial said it could increase patients' choice, save the NHS money and be adapted for infectious diseases like Monkey Pox, COVID-19 or other STIs. It was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), a major funder of global health research and training that benefits the NHS, public health and social care.
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