{"id":534,"date":"2012-05-15T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=534"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:44:46","slug":"std-and-sti-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/std-and-sti-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"STD and STI statistics published by HPA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Statistics published by the Health Protection Agency show that:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/data-1-1-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7722\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/data-1-1-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/data-1-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/data-1-1-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/data-1-1-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/data-1-1-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Poor sexual health is of greatest concern in young heterosexuals and men who have sex with men.<\/li><li>In the UK, people who live in cities are more at risk: these populations are thought to be more likely to have casual sex.<\/li><li>Promoting testing and safe sex is key to prevent new cases of STDs and HIV.<\/li><li>In the UK in 2010, there was an 8% rise in the number of people who tested positive for Genital Herpes (HSVII or Herpes type II).<\/li><li>In the UK in 2010, there was a 3% rise in the number of people who tested positive for gonorrhoea.<\/li><li>For the first time since records began the number of new cases of Chlamydia fell by 1% in the UK in 2010.<\/li><li>The number of diagnoses made in NHS GUM clinics is falling as patients are increasingly choosing to be tested elsewhere such as private STD clinics.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics published by the Health Protection Agency show that:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[22,4,20,14,19],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1507,627,920,568,820,644,1502,940,1145,655,795,1328,1505,637,705,1506,597,1504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}