New figures show cases of gonorrhoea in England have reached record highs, with children as young as 13 being diagnosed with the sexually transmitted infection.
A collection tube for polymerase chain reaction testing which is commonly used to screen patients for chlamydia and gonorrhoea infections. have reached record highs while children as young as 13 have been diagnosed with the sexually transmitted infection, new figures show., with the number of diagnosed cases of infectious syphilis at the highest level since just after the Second World War.
The UKHSA said people aged 15 to 24 are most likely to be diagnosed with STIs as it urged those who are having sex with new or causal partners to wear a condom and get tested regularly. ‘We saw more gonorrhoea diagnoses in 2022 than ever before, with large rises, particularly in young people,’ said Dr Hamish Mohammed, consultant epidemiologist at UKHSA.Gonorrhoea diagnoses rose to to 82,592 in 2022, an increase of 50.3% compared with 2021 and the highest number of gonorrhoea diagnoses in any one year since records began in 1918.537 over 65s were diagnosed with gonorrhoea in 2022 compared with 387 before the pandemic in 2019.
‘If this were any other set of health conditions, there would be outcry and we’d see rapid action and much-needed funding.
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