Epidemiological Situation of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Guangdong Province in 2013
CHEN Lei
HUANG Shu-jie
HONG Xuan
SHEN Hong-cheng
TANG Wei-ming
YANG Li-gang
ZHENG He-ping
YANG Bin
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the characteristics of sexually transmitted diseases ( STD) in Guangdong province and provide scientific evidence for making prevention and control strate -gies.Methods:An epidemiological study was performed on 5 kinds of notification and monitoring STD cases which reported from 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong province .Results:The in-cidence of syphilis , gonorrhea , condyloma acuminatum , herpes progenitalis and chlamydial tra-chomatis in year 2013 was 50.26, 19.63, 21.55, 7.95 and 49.95 per 100,000 population, re-spectively , with an increase or decrease of -0.47%, 14.45%, 6.48%, 3.87% and 13.77%compared with those in 2012 .The epidemic was centralized in Pearl River Delta , and the cases in Shenzhen , Guangzhou , Foshan and Dongguan were all over 10 ,000 .The male to female ratio of the 5 kinds of STDs was 1.09∶1, 7.49∶1, 0.96∶1, 1.43∶1 and 0.40∶1, respectively.The cases were mostly between 15 and 24 years old , the reported cases of 15~24 and ≧60 years old was 35,874 and 14,649 respectively.Conclusion:The epidemic of STD was still in the rise phase in Guangdong and targeted prevention and control strategy should be developed and implemented to - ward STD.
Keywords：Sexually transmitted diseasesEpidemiologyPrevention and control
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 62-67 )