§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) new cases and (b) new cases per head of population there were of (i) HIV/AIDS, (ii) syphilis, (iii) gonorrhea, (iv) chlamydia and (v) other forms of sexually transmitted disease in each (A) health authority and (B) PCT area in each year since 1996. [85731]
§ Ms BlearsInformation has been placed in the Library which gives the number of new cases (diagnoses) and new cases per 100,000 population for each of the infections, by region, for the years 1996–2001. Data are not available at the health authority/primary care trust level.
Diagnoses of HIV were derived from voluntary clinician and laboratory reporting and the sexually transmitted infection (STI) data were derived from statutory reporting of diagnoses made at genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics on form KC60. Data on STIs are only collected from GUM clinics, so STIs diagnosed and treated by general practitioners or in other settings do not form part of the data set.