Researchers analyzed the rise in gonorrhea diagnoses in England post-coronavirus disease 2019.
By Vijay Kumar MalesuAug 24 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, a group of researchers analyzed the rise in gonorrhea diagnoses in England post-coronavirus disease 2019 restrictions and understand its implications across demographics and in comparison to other bacterial sexually transmitted infections .
However, after lifting all COVID-19 restrictions in July 2021, England saw social norms return, and with it, a resurgence in service provision. The researchers utilized this data to study quarterly trends and looked into data based on various criteria, including different age brackets , gender, and sexual orientations such as gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men , heterosexual men, women who have sex with women , and women who have sex with men .
Study results After the removal of COVID-19 restrictions in the third quarter of 2021 up to the end of 2022, England observed a significant shift in the statistics related to gonorrhea. Tests for gonorrhea saw a rise of 5.6%, moving from 483,717 to 510,792. Concurrently, testing rates for the younger age bracket remained somewhat consistent, marking a minor rise of 1.5%. By the end of 2022, test numbers either matched or surpassed 2019 figures for all age categories, except for the 15-to-24-year-olds, where there was a 12.4% drop.
Focusing on the 15-to-24-year-old demographic, heterosexual individuals displayed the most significant spike in diagnoses compared to GBMSM from the third to the fourth quarter of 2021.
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