Scottish sexual infections treble in just ten years

Scottish sexual infections treble in just ten years | News | The Christian Institute: The sharpest rise was in cases of genital chlamydia, with the number of diagnoses rocketing from 5,676 in 1999 to 18,277 in 2009. During the same period diagnoses of genital herpes increased from 933 to 2,627, while diagnoses of gonorrhoea nearly doubled. And between 1999 and 2010 the number of HIV-infected people more than doubled from 156 to 360.

In December, an official report into the success of Scotland's sexual health strategy revealed that the 'safer sex' message was getting through but was not working.

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