Sexually Transmitted Disease

Gonorrhea Increases Among Homosexual Men

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 20th, 1997

Homosexual men account for an alarmingly higher proportion of cases of a common sexual disease that increases the risk of contracting HIV, the United States government said September 25, 1997.

The increase in gonorrhea from 1993 to 1996 is a disturbing sign that homosexual men may be returning to unsafe sex now that the AIDS epidemic appears to be slowing, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

"We have heard anecdotes throughout the country that people feel HIV is no longer the threat it used to be," said Dr. Helene Gayle, director of the CDC's national center for HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis...

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