Gonorrhea and syphilis skyrocketing among gay men in Britain
by Claire Chretien, LifeSite:
The number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among men who have sex with men increased 10 percent from 2014 to 2015, Public Health England (PHE) reported Tuesday.
In 2015, “there were large increases in diagnoses of gonorrhea (11 percent) and syphilis (20 percent), continuing the rising trends in these infections of the past five years,” PHE reported, and “these rises have occurred mostly in gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men.”
Among men who have sex with men, in 2015 there was a 21 percent increase in gonorrhea diagnoses, a 19 percent increase in syphilis diagnoses, and an eight percent increase in Chlamydia diagnoses.
PHE’s report noted that the number of males diagnosed with gonorrhea, syphilis, and genital herpes has “increased considerably.”
Men who have sex with men bear the brunt of STIs, according to the report.
In English sexual health clinics in 2015, 84 percent of syphilis diagnoses, 70 percent of gonorrhea diagnoses, 21 percent of Chlamydia diagnoses, 12 percent of genital herpes diagnoses, and 9 percent of genital warts diagnoses were in men who have sex with men.
PHE’s report indicated that there seems to be high levels of risky sexual behavior among men who have sex with men. PHE’s data “suggests that rapid STI transmission is occurring in dense sexual networks of HIV-positive” men who have sex with men.
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