The UK faces a new Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) diagnoses every 70 seconds, according to a new report that outlines how government inaction and cuts has led to a rise in STIs.
The State of the Nation report was produced as a collaboration between the Terrence Higgins Trust and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. It had found that there were 447,694 cases of STIs diagnosed in England in 2018, with Gonorrhoea up 249% and chlamydia up 6%. Syphilis is up 165% which is the highest rate since the Second World War.