Reported STDs continue to rise in USA

According to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) annual report on the national trends of three notifiable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs): chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis; the rate of reported infections continues to rise, and as before, it is likely the official data represents only a small part of the true national picture. Not only are many cases of these diseases undiagnosed and unreported, but the figures do not cover other highly prevalent infections, such as human papillomavirus and genital herpes.

Despite the enormous progress recent years have seen in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of some STDs, the CDC estimates that around 19 million new infections occur in America every year, nearly 50 per cent of them in young people aged 15 to 24, causing nearly 15 billion dollars in direct medical costs in 2006, in addition to the untold physical and psychological damage, for which there is no price tag.

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