African Americans (AAs) are disproportionately affected by STDs in the United States, at rates of 8-to-20 times higher than whites. Health communication can help raise awareness of the problem in AA communities and prompt change, but the most effective messaging, including whether HIV and STD ...
The latest data on STD rates comes from 2021, and that year a total of 2.5 million STDs were reported in the United States. According todailymail.co.uk"tracking by the CDC showed cases of gonorrhea increased 15 percent and reported cases of both early- and more advanced-stage syphilis incr...
Seroprevalence studies indicate about 60% of adults in the United States are infected with this virus. HSV-2 is usually spread by sexual contact (genital herpes). Consequently this infection usually occurs later in life and the seroprevalence rates vary dramatically by geographic region. Both HSV-...
What occurred with STD rates in the United States is more alarming. Gonorrhea rates, which dwarfed the rates of the disease in Europe, declined drastically. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the US’s gonorrhea incidence still eclipses that of its European counterparts. Worse yet...
Although STDs are widespread across racial and ethnic groups, the rates tend to be higher among African Americans than white Americans. Blacks remain the group most heavily affected by gonorrhea. In 2004, the gonorrhea rate among blacks was 19 times the rate among whites. The rate of chlamydia...
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705 cases documented in 2001.[2]Infection rates had been on the decline until 1998, when an increase of 8% was observed. Since then, rates have changed little with 128.5 cases/100,000. They remain high in the southeastern United States, among minorities, and in adolescents from all ethnic...
Mississippi is grappling with some of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections in the country, including chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases, alongside new HIV and STD diagnoses. In the Jackson metro area, the numbers tell a stark story of urgency. ...
(STDs) are once again tightening their grip on the nation's health. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have all increased for a third year in a row. In 2016, more than two million cases of these three infections were reported in the United States—the highest number ever. ...
The highest rates of chlamydial and gonococcal infections are in 15- to 19-year-oldfemales, while HPV acquisition is often during adolescence. Oral sexual behavior isnoted in one-third to one-half of youth and can lead to the acquisition of variousSTDs including HPV, HSV, syphilis, ...