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2012: half a million sexually transmitted infections in England
Roger Pebody, 2013-06-05 10:00:00
There were just under half a million new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2012, according to data released by Public Health England today. As in previous years, there were particularly high rates in gay men and in young heterosexual adults, with some urban areas having a much greater burden of disease than other parts of the country.
More encouragingly, rates of genital warts are down in young women – apparently because of HPV vaccination.
The total number of diagnoses is a little higher than the previous year (from 428,255 to 448,422 in 2012). Chlamydia remained the most commonly diagnosed infection (206,912 diagnoses), but there were also many diagnoses of genital warts (73,893), non-specific genital infection (59,942), genital herpes (32,021) and gonorrhoea (25,525). In comparison, the number of syphilis infections was much lower (2978).
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