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April: Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month - khqa.com

Posted: 30 Mar 2019 02:00 PM PDT

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The numbers are in and the fact is this: sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are surging across the United States. In Adams County, there were 286 cases of ...

CDC: STDs rates highest in recent history, chlamydia makes highest jump - Times Record News

Posted: 23 Mar 2019 12:08 PM PDT

Claire Kowalick, Wichita Falls Times Record News Published 1:08 p.m. CT March 23, 2019

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A four-year trend of rising STD rates continued in 2017. Here's why and what you can do to protect. USA TODAY

Despite an increase to availability of preventive health care, in 2017 the United States saw the most sexually transmitted diseases to date according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2017, the most recent data reported, there were dramatic increases in gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia.

In the country, there were 2,365,744 reported cases of these three diseases with chlamydia making up more than half of the reports (1,708,569 cases of chlamydia).

Total cases of these two STDs in the U.S. in 1941 was 679,028. Reporting on chlamydia did not begin until 1984 when there were 7,594 cases of the disease.

STD cases in Wichita County

The recently released County Health Rankings shows in Wichita County, there were 798 cases of chlamydia in 2016 - a rate of 606 per 100,000. The county figures were higher than both the Texas and U.S. averages of 520 and 497, respectively.  

According to CDC data, in the same year cases of gonorrhea totaled 274 (208 per 100,000), 3 cases of 1st and 2nd level syphilis and 10 cases of early latent syphilis. 

Figures were better for Wichita County in the past two years. According to the Wichita Falls Wichita County Health District, cases of gonorrhea dropped to 84 in 2018. That same year there were 156 cases of chlamydia. Syphilis cases were up that year at 19 cases. 

So far in 2019, in Wichita County there have been 12 cases of gonorrhea, 32 cases of chlamydia and eight cases of syphilis.

 

From 2016 to 2017, in the U.S. there was a nearly 7 percent increase in cases of chlamydia in the U.S., nearly 19 percent increase in gonorrhea and just over 15 percent increase in syphilis in all stages.

The CDC reports rates of syphilis peaked in the 1940s, then saw a decline with the addition of penicillin as a treatment for the disease.

Even with this ability to treat and cure the infection, there was a more than 15 percent increase of syphilis in 2016-2017.

While an increase in STDs might indicate Americans are having more sex, the opposite is actually true.

The CDC reports sexual activity is decreasing in the country. The biennial General Social Survey found the number of Americans who reported having no sex in the past year went up from 18 to 22 percent in the past 20 years.

The number of Americans between 18 and 30 who reported having sex twice in the past month went down from three-quarters in the early 2000s to two-thirds by 2016.

A study by the Archives of Sexual Behavior found Americans where having on average nine fewer sexual encounters per year than they did in the 1990s.

There appears to be an increase in riskier sex however, with a rise in the number of condom-less encounters and rise in high-risk behaviors associated with opioid use and/or addiction.

A stigma identifying people with STDs as promiscuous is also seen as a possible reason people delay or refrain from treatment. 

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Texas ranked fifth for cases of syphilis with an average of 43.5 cases per 100,000 residents (U.S. average was 31.4).

Nearby Dallas County saw the highest increase in STDs in the county for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea with a 49.5 and 46.7 percent, respective, increase.

Tarrant County was the second highest increase in syphilis at 55.6 percent increase.

Collin and Tarrant counties were in the top five for highest decrease in STDs for chlamydia and gonorrhea and El Paso County had the fifth highest decrease for syphilis.

The highest numbers of cases appear to be in men and women ages 20-24 with another peak in people 45-54.

In 2016-2017, chlamydia increased the most for people ages 45 and older, while gonorrhea increased the most for people aged 30-44.

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