scholarly journals First results from the new STI reporting system in Cyprus

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Collective Unit for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases
Keyword(s):  
Genital Herpes ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infection ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Genital Warts ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Sentinel Network ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
First Results

Genital warts was the most frequently diagnosed sexually transmitted infection (STI) in Cyprus in 2004, according to the first year’s results from the STI Sentinel Network of Clinicians surveillance. This accounted for 242 (32%) of the 757 new cases of diagnosed STIs, with genital herpes (167, 22%) and gonorrhoea (136, 18%) being the second and third most frequent diagnoses. Cases of syphilis made up 3% of the total number of reported STIs.

scholarly journals Genital Herpes Has Played a More Important Role than Any Other Sexually Transmitted Infection in Driving HIV Prevalence in Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. e2230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laith J. Abu-Raddad ◽  
Amalia S. Magaret ◽  
Connie Celum ◽  
Anna Wald ◽  
Ira M. Longini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genital Herpes ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infection ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Sexually Transmitted

Outcome of partner notification in patients diagnosed with genital warts attending a provincial clinic in East Anglia, England

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 518-519
Author(s):  
L Mercer ◽  
T C Harry
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infection ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Partner Notification ◽  
Genital Warts ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Relationship Duration

We retrospectively reviewed partner notification of patients diagnosed with first episode genital warts seen in the genitourinary (GU) medicine clinic, Great Yarmouth, UK, from January 2005 to December 2008. Of 947 patients diagnosed with genital warts, 486 (51.3%) were men, median age 25 years; 461 (48.7%) were women, median age 21 years and the partner notification index was 32.9%. In our cohort, 310 patients 33.2% reported having had a casual partner that could not be traced. The median relationship duration of partners whose contact attended was nine months and those whose contact did not attend was two months, (χ2 = 49.72, P < 0.0001). The odds ratio (OR) of a contact attending after seeing a health adviser was 2.94 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.79–4.86). In our cohort 35.6% of contacts whose partners saw a health adviser attended compared with 15.7% of contacts whose partner did not see a health adviser (χ2 = 19.7, P < 0.0001). Among the contacts 26% had genital warts, 28% had another sexually transmitted infection (STI) and 12% had both genital warts and another STI. The low partner notification index was associated with the reported casual partnerships seen in the cohort. Partner notification was enhanced when patients saw a health adviser.

scholarly journals Examining the role of socioeconomic deprivation in ethnic differences in sexually transmitted infection diagnosis rates in England: evidence from surveillance data

2016 ◽  
Vol 144 (15) ◽  
pp. 3253-3262 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. FUREGATO ◽  
Y. CHEN ◽  
H. MOHAMMED ◽  
C. H. MERCER ◽  
E. J. SAVAGE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genital Herpes ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Genital Warts ◽  
Socioeconomic Deprivation ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
White Ethnicity ◽  
Sexual Health Clinics ◽  
Rate Ratios

SUMMARYDifferences by ethnic group in STI diagnosis rates have long been recognized in England. We investigated whether these may be explained by ethnic disparities in socioeconomic deprivation (SED). Data on all diagnoses made in sexual health clinics in England in 2013 were obtained from the mandatory STI surveillance system. Poisson regression was used to calculate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of STIs, by ethnicity, with and without adjustment for index of multiple deprivation (IMD) a measure of area-level deprivation. Unadjusted IRRs (95% confidence intervals) were highest for gonorrhoea [8·18 (7·77–8·61) and 5·76 (5·28–6·29)] and genital herpes [4·24 (3·99–4·51) and 3·58 (3·23–3·98)] for people of black Caribbean and non-Caribbean/non-African black ethnicity and IRRs were highest for syphilis [8·76 (7·97–9·63)] and genital warts [2·23 (2·17–2·29)] for people of non-British/non-Irish white ethnicity compared to white British ethnicity. After adjustment for IMD, IRRs for gonorrhoea [5·76 (5·47–6·07)] and genital herpes [3·73 (3·50–3·97)] declined but remained highest for black Caribbeans and IRRs for syphilis [7·35 (6·68–8·09)] and genital warts [2·10 (2·04–2·16)] declined but remained highest for non-British/non-Irish white compared to white British. In England, ethnic disparities in STI diagnosis rates are partially explained by SED, but behavioural and contextual factors likely contribute. Clinic and community-based interventions should involve social peer networks to ensure they are targeted and culturally sensitive.

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