Epidemiological Survey of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Guangdong Province in 2014
CHEN Lei
LI Ying
SHEN Hong-cheng
LIU Feng-ying
ZHANG Ye
ZHAO Pei-zhen
REN Xu-qi
TANG Wei-ming
HUANG Shu-jie
ZHENG He-ping
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the incidence and epidemiological characteristics of sexu-ally transmitted diseases (STDs) in Guangdong province in 2014, and to provide scientific evi-dence for prevention and control strategies .Methods:A descriptive epidemiologic study was per-formed on 5 kinds of STDs cases including syphilis , gonorrhea , genital warts , genital herpes , and Chlamydia trachomatis infection which reported from 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong prov-ince.Results:The incidence of syphilis, gonorrhea, condyloma acuminatum, genital herpes and Chlamydia trachomatis infection during 2014 was 52.55, 15.74, 22.09, 7.68 and 51.27 per 100,000 population respectively and 149.34/100,000 in total, with an increase or decrease of 4.57%, -19.80%, 2.55%, -3.39%, 2.65% and 0.01% compared with those in 2013 . The epidemic was centralized in Pearl River Delta , and the cases in Shenzhen , Guangzhou , Fos-han and Dongguan were all over 10,000.The male to female ratio of the 5 kinds of STDs was 1.14∶1, 6.62∶1, 0.98∶1, 1.42∶1 and 0.36∶1, respectively.The cases were mostly between 20 and 45 years old, which accounted for 72.17%.Conclusion:STDs were still the most important pub-lic health issue in Guangdong province .Syphilis and Chlamydia trachomatis infection were the pri-mary STDs in 2014 , and latent syphilis was the major stage in syphilis .Targeted prevention as well as control strategy should be developed and implemented toward STDs .
Keywords：Sexually transmitted diseasesEpidemiologyPrevention and control
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 3-7,12 )