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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 2 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of (a) HIV, (b) chlamydia, (c) gonorrhoea, (d) syphilis, (e) genital warts and (f) genital herpes there have been in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months. (134890)

The number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in Northern Ireland in the past 12 months is not available. However, the number of new episodes of sexually transmitted diseases that were recorded at Genito-Urinary Medicine clinics across Northern Ireland during 2006 is presented in the following table.

Condition

Number of new episodes

(a) HIV

55

(b) Chlamydia

2,686

(c) Gonorrhoea

292

(d) Syphilis

82

(e) Anogenital Warts

3,100

(f) Anogential Herpes Simplex

418

Notes:

1. Figures relate to the period 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006. The figures are currently provisional and may subsequently change.

2. These figures relate to episodes of diagnosis and/or treatment of infection or disease and not individual people. Thus one individual may contribute to more than one episode.

Source:

Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Northern Ireland (CDSC (NI)).