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Article: STD Quarterly: Gonorrhea rates drop; stay focused on spread.(sexually transmitted diseases)
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- Contraceptive Technology Update
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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STD Quarterly
Gonorrhea rates drop; stay focused on spread
Efforts to lower the rates of gonorrhea in the United States are dipping figures to all-time lows, but work remains to erase racial disparities and combat growing drug resistance to the sexually transmitted disease (STD).
While gonorrhea rates dropped to 116.2 cases per 100,000 population between 2002 and 2003, African Americans remained most heavily affected by gonorrhea, with reported rates of disease 20 times higher than for whites, states John Douglas Jr., MD, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of STD Prevention in the agencys National Center ...