Are there Solutions to the Epidemic that STD is causing?

Overview

Gonorrhea, syphilis & chlamydia are just few of the STDs that were rising in the US. This is based on the survey report done in 2014 from the CDC. The STDs in US have been a top subject even more so as of the moment. Charlie Sheen, an actor was said to have HIV and in October of last year, the WHO has just said that more than 1.2 of the world suffers from Herpes. The CDC has reported that their attention is merely focused to some other STDs that they want to fight as they reach the top medical charts in the US. The America’s falling STD pandemic is just a wakeup call for the medical experts to have a clear and better diagnosis and treatment for STDs, but it is also important for them to learn how to prevent these diseases from spreading.

The rates behind the record

To be aware of the std in US as there has been around 5.1% rise in the cases of gonorrhea, 2.8% on chlamydia and there has been 15% rise in the case of syphilis starting in 2013. In every 100,000 people, 6.3% got STDs in 2014 alone. The CDC said that based on the number of gonorrhea cases recorded in 1941, 193,000 of which were on record. In 1976, the figures went up to 1M, but 5 years after, it went back to less than a million. The number went on as it declines to this day. The current data shows that there are more than 350,000 cases recorded in 2014. This was the first growth recorded in gonorrhea since 2013. The growth in the cases of chlamydia has been detected and became visible through the years. In 1984, there were around 7,500 and in 1994 it went up by 451,000.

10 years after it went up by around 900,000. At the moment based on the report of 2014, chlamydia cases were surpassed the past year’s record and there were more than 1.4M on record. Women are the most in numbers on record than men with 627 than 278 in every 100,000. Syphilis on the other hand is divided into 4 stages, the primary, secondary, latent & the late. It has been a roller coaster ride for the past 10 years. In 1941, there were more than 480,000 cases in all stages on record. In 1968, there was a decrease under the 100,000 and it went on until the latter part of 1980s when it went up and reached 6 figures. It started to go down again in the middle part of 1990 and it was soaring around 31,000 by the year 2000. There were a total of 63,000 on record in 2014.

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