Sexual disease drive 'paying off'

Health chiefs in the North East of England said they believed steps to tackle sexually transmitted infections are having an impact. The Health Protection Agency said more than 16,000 people who went to clinics last year were diagnosed with a new infection. It marked a 1% increase but was smaller than the year before when there was an 8% rise in new cases. There were 5,767 new cases of chlamydia, which was an increase of 5% from the previous year. There were also rises in the diagnoses of gonorrhoea and herpes but cases of syphilis and genital warts reduced slightly. BBC