Recent sexually transmitted infection (STI) figures from Public Health England show that young women are continuing to benefit from the introduction of the nationwide Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination programme in 2008. All girls aged 12 to 13 are offered the vaccine as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme, and an eight per cent […]
Overall diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections were down last year, according to latest figures released by Public Health England, which show that there were 434,465 diagnoses in 2015, compared to 449,642 in 2014. However, this 3% reduction was in large part due to less chlamydia testing taking place among young people – 135,000 fewer tests […]
Conflict and emergencies can disrupt HIV services; however, the prevalence of HIV infection is generally low among people from the Middle East and North Africa. Hence, there is a low risk that HIV will be brought to Europe by migrants from these countries. Despite a decline during the past decade, migrants still constitute 35 per […]