sexually transmitted infections


sexually transmitted infections

STI, STD, a growing problem in Britain and elsewhere in the world. Between 1999 and 2004 in the UK, figures for GONORRHOEA rose 78 per cent, for CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS 73 per cent and for SYPHILIS 374 per cent. See ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS), AMOEBIASIS, CANDIDIASIS, CHANCROID, CRAB LICE, Gardnerella vaginalis infection, GENITAL HERPES, GENITAL WARTS, genital THRUSH, GIARDIASIS, HEPATITIS A, B and C, GRANULOMA INGUINALE, LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM, SCABIES, TRICHOMONIASIS and YAWS.