STI Clinic Statistics

January 17, 2010 by admin · Comments Off 

1. Only 28% of women claimed always to have used a condom as opposed to 53% of men (source; St Mary’ Hospital STI Clinic. Report published Jan2010)

2. People may say that they use a condom but of those tested, 20% of patients who claimed they always used a condom tested positively for an STI (source; St Mary’ Hospital STI Clinic. Report published Jan2010)

3. New instances of herpes in the UK have increase by 51%, across all ages, over the past 4 years (source: HPA July 2009)

4. Women over 45 have proved especially vulnerable in this area as the statistic of new instances of herpes has increased 79%, Chlamydia at 49% (versus the national average of 8%) and Genital Warts at 32% (versus the national average of 17%) (source: HPA July 2009)