“We are yet again seeing soaring rates of syphilis and gonorrhoea, and increases in the number of people attending sexual health services, which is happening against a back drop of central government stripping £700m from public health budgets in the last five years. There were 54,798 overall gonorrhea diagnoses last year – up by more than a quarter from 43,685 in 2017 and more than double the 25,998 in 2012.ĭebbie Laycock, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “Today’s new STI statistics shows there needs to be urgent action to improve the state of the nation’s sexual health. The man’s infection was eventually successfully treated with a different antibiotic. It was the first ever time the infection was not treatable with first-choice antibiotics. Infertility and diseaseĪn untreated infection can lead to infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease, and can even be passed on to a child during pregnancy.īut there are fears around the effectiveness of antibiotics – which can usually treat the disease – with the first case of super-gonorrhea diagnosed in a male patient last March. The STI is caused by a bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae and is usually spread through having unprotected sex. The 13 things Sainsbury's is removing from stores to cut back plastic wasteĬampaigners have urged ministers to “wake up to this crisis” and blasted their handling of sexual health so far as “simply not good enough”.
That year there were 275 new diagnoses of gonorrhea. More specifically it's up a massive 67.2 per cent from 478 the year before and is the highest number since modern records began in 2012. New figures from Public Health England reveal that there were 799 diagnoses in 2018 - that's almost double the year before.
A record number of people in Kent are being diagnosed with gonorrhoea – after the emergence of a new “super-strain” of the sexually-transmitted disease.