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Article: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN CANADA: RECENT RESURGENCE THREATENS NATIONAL GOALS.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
- Author:
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents recent data on sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Canada and analyzes the current situation in relation to national goals for STI prevention set in 1997. While epidemiological trends at that time indicated that, with the exception of HIV, most of the reportable STIs were either slowly declining or close to elimination, recent trends are less favourable. The rate of decline in new HIV infections among adults appears to have levelled off Similarly the number of reports of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men, which declined rapidly between 1995 and 1998 has also plateaued with a slight increase in 2000. The period since 1997 ...