We’ve suspected for a long time that it’s a sexually transmitted infection (STI), because it has a similar incubation period ...

A “stubborn” infection that affects one in three women and often comes back after treatment is actually an STI that can be completely erased in many cases if their male partner is treated too.

In their trial of 164 couples with BV in monogamous relationships, the researchers found that treating BV as an STI, with both sexual partners treated simultaneously, achieves significantly higher ...

A new study in Australia found that treating male partners can reduce BV reinfections, suggesting that BV may be sexually ...

For decades, bacterial vaginosis has been treated as a women’s health issue—but new research suggests treating male partners ...

Health experts say an Australian study linking sexual activity to an infection that 1 in 3 U.S. women contract has provided a ...

Women experience fewer repeat infections with bacterial vaginosis when both they and their male sex partners receive ...

King Holmes, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician and researcher who helped create modern STI research and was a central ...

A new study suggests that bacterial vaginosis (BV), affecting nearly 1 in 3 women worldwide, should be classified as a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people ...

A landmark study reveals that bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition affecting nearly a third of women worldwide and causing infertility, premature births and newborn deaths, is in fact an STI, paving ...

Australian scientists have revealed that a common infection among women, bacterial vaginosis (BV), can actually be passed on ...