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Experts Concerned Over Rising STIs Among Young People

by VR Sreeraman on August 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM Sexual Health News

Experts have revealed that young people are most likely to end up with sexually transmitted infections, as official records have shown record levels of STIs.

Experts Concerned Over Rising STIs Among Young People

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Data from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) indicates a worrying increase in sexually transmitted infections with sexual health clinics reporting 482,700 new cases in 2009, which is an increase of around 12,000 on the previous year.

The HPA figures show clearly that people aged under 25 are most affected by STIs. Among women, 73 percent of new cases of gonorrhoea and 66 percent of new cases of genital warts involved under-25s.

Chlamydia was also most likely to be found in the under-25s (88 percent of cases), but that was partly to do with more sensitive tests and the targeting of the testing campaign to the age group.

But half of all new diagnoses in men also involved under-25s. That included 41 percent of male gonorrhoea diagnoses, 47 percent of male cases of genital warts and 69 percent of male cases of chlamydia. STI diagnoses were also high among men who have sex with men.

Genital warts and syphilis diagnoses have stabilised, the figures show, but gonorrhoea is on the increase, which raises a particular concern.

Resistance to the main antibiotic used to treat the infection, cefixime, rose from 0.1 percent in 2005 to 10.6 percent in 2009.

Dr Gwenda Hughes, head of the STI section of the HPA, said these figures highlight the vulnerability of young women.

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