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COVID-19 Has Made It Harder To Slow The Rise In Sexually Transmitted Infections. Expedited Partner Treatment Can Help - Health Affairs COVID-19 Has Made It Harder To Slow The Rise In Sexually Transmitted Infections. Expedited Partner Treatment Can Help - Health Affairs Why scientists think this year will be the ‘summer of STIs’ - Telegraph.co.uk Pandemic adds hurdles for STI reduction - Carlisle Sentinel COVID-19 Has Made It Harder To Slow The Rise In Sexually Transmitted Infections. Expedited Partner Treatment Can Help - Health Affairs Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:02 AM PDT When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the United States was already experiencing record high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the preliminary 2019 figures showed the US on track for a sixth consecutive year of record numbers for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisser...

The STDs Infectious Disease Experts Hate Most - Infection Control Today The STDs Infectious Disease Experts Hate Most - Infection Control Today Posted: 08 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PST That was also the top choice for Ina Park, MD, associate professor at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine; medical director of the California Prevention Training Center; and author of Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs. And, "gonorrhea," says David Aronoff, MD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. On any given day in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 5 individuals had an STI. Gonorrhea actually comes a low fifth on the CDC's list of STI prevalence, but the number of cases had recently jumped 63% in only 4 years.1 April happens to be the CDC's STD Awa...

Sexually transmitted disease rates soar in Monroe County - Rochester City Newspaper Sexually transmitted disease rates soar in Monroe County - Rochester City Newspaper Posted: 25 Mar 2021 12:06 PM PDT As COVID-19 turned our world upside down in 2020, another health crisis was raging locally. Last year, Monroe County recorded some of the highest increases in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in New York, according to the state health department. Compared to 2019, the number of gonorrhea cases soared by 77 percent, up to 1,888. There were 5,382 cases of chlamydia, among the highest rates in the state outside of New York City. In the first nine months of 2020, there were 55 people diagnosed with HIV in Monroe County. That's as many as in each of the previous four years. More than half of the STIs were diagnosed among people younger than 26. "In some studies, there's actually a small decrease in numbers of sexually transmitted di...

Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction - Roll Call Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction - Roll Call Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:03 AM PDT Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Skip to Content Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction Additional policies to expand STD education, combat testing supply shortages and provide direct funding are needed, experts say Even as COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up, officials are concerned that vaccination rates for other diseases have dropped in the past year. Above, a vaccination center in Washington. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Posted March 24, 2021 at 8:00am The pandemic's stress on the nation's health system has amplified challenges in rising rates of sexually trans...

Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction - Roll Call Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction - Roll Call Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:03 AM PDT Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Skip to Content Pandemic adds hurdles for sexually transmitted disease reduction Additional policies to expand STD education, combat testing supply shortages and provide direct funding are needed, experts say Even as COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up, officials are concerned that vaccination rates for other diseases have dropped in the past year. Above, a vaccination center in Washington. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Posted March 24, 2021 at 8:00am The pandemic's stress on the nation's health system has amplified challenges in rising rates of sexually trans...