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A startling finding from an international clinical trial shows that bacterial vaginosis, a common vaginal condition, can be transmitted through sexual contact with men, and that treating male partners alongside women dramatically reduces recurrence. In the study’s 12-week follow-up, recurrence dropped from about six in ten women when their partners were not treated to roughly one in three when both partners received therapy. The result has jolted long-held assumptions in sexual and reproductive health and raises immediate questions for Thai clinics and families dealing with BV, a condition already known to be widespread and often stubbornly recurrent.