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Table 4 Pre-travel health recommendations

From: Sun, sea and sex: a review of the sex tourism literature

Clinicians should ask travellers if they intend on engaging in sexual intercourse while overseas.

Recommend traveller to carry condoms and other forms of protection if they intend to engage in intercourse overseas.

Provide travellers with written materials on STI prevention, in addition to providing a verbal intervention.

Offer condoms and sexual lubricant to the patient, if possible.

Assess travellers’ suitability for HIV PrEP.

  1. STI sexually transmitted infection; HIV human immunodeficiency virus; PrEP pre-exposure prophylaxis