Drugs for pid

Drugs for pid — Introduction. In the US, ~800,000 women are diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) each year. 1 However, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than one million women experience an episode of PID each year taking into account missed cases of PID. 2 The rates of PID are concerning given the serious potential sequelae of PID, including tubal Screening and treating sexually active women for chlamydia and gonorrhea reduces their risk for PID (1162,1163). Although BV is associated with PID, whether PID incidence can be reduced by identifying and treating women with BV is unclear (1161). Whether screening young women for M. genitalium is associated with a reduction in PID is unknown.