Hear All About It: Update on Over-The-Counter Contraception and STI Testing and Post-exposure Prophylaxis for STIs for Adolescents

Sunday, April 27, 2025

2:00pm – 3:30pm HST

Location: Convention Center: 314

CE: 1.5

Selected By: SAHM
Co-sponsored By: PIDS

Chair(s)

May Lau, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas, United States

Disclosure(s):

May Lau, MD, MPH: Organon (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Speaker Honorarium including speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness)

While birth rates among adolescents and young adults (AYA) in the United States continue to decrease, barriers remain to accessing contraception. Almost half of reported cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. occur in AYA. However, a revolution in AYA sexual and reproductive health is happening. This Hot Topic Symposium will inform participants about the recent availability of over-the-counter (OTC) contraception and STI testing, along with doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (Doxy PEP) for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis as it pertains to youth.

The OTC contraception presentation will be by an adolescent medicine physician. Word cloud will be used to identify audience concerns about OTC contraception. Contraindications to, side effects of, and access to OTC contraception will be discussed.

Another adolescent medicine physician will provide updates on OTC STI testing. Word cloud will be used to identify audience concerns about OTC STI testing. Pros and cons of OTC STI testing will be reviewed along with management of positive tests.

An infectious disease specialist will lecture on Doxy PEP for STI prevention. Audience-identified barriers about provision of Doxy PEP to AYAs will be displayed via word cloud. Identification of candidates for, patient counseling on, and prescribing of Doxy PEP, along with management will be explored.

After each presentation there will be a presenter-led small group discussion and case-based discussion utilizing web-based audience response system. Sufficient time will be available for the audience to ask questions from the presenter panel and share complex patient cases for discussion with the panel.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the current state of over-the-counter contraception and sexually transmitted infection testing and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for youth.
Analyze information and research regarding over-the-counter contraception and sexually transmitted infection testing and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for youth
Utilize the current research to inform practice policies around over-the-counter contraception and sexually transmitted infection testing and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for youth

Presentations:

2:00pm – 2:30pm HST

Over-the-counter Contraception: The Time Is Now
Speaker: Jessica Sims, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
2:30pm – 3:00pm HST

Know Your Role in OTC STI Testing
Speaker: Lea Widdice, MD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
3:00pm – 3:30pm HST

Stepping up for Doxy PEP
Speaker: Matthew M. Hamill, MBChB, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine