Registratie van SOA en HIV consulten bij GGD's enSOA-poliklinieken: Jaarverslag 2000

摘要

Public health nurses at the municipal health services keep a register ofpatients attending the MHS or STD clinic for diagnosis and treatment ofSTD or request for HIV-testing. Data are collected at a national leveland are only registered for an actual STD or HIV consultation withconfirmed diagnosis. Fourty-two health services registered a total of13,413 consultations with a confirmed diagnosis in 2000 (16% more than in1999). About 71% of the patients were Dutch. Of the men 64% reportedheterosexual contacts and 18% reported homosexual and bisexual contacts. Of the women, 16% reported to have worked as a commercial sex worker inthe past 6 months prior to the consultation at the clinic. The number ofcases of diagnosed STD had increased by 15% in 2000 (to 3370) withrespect to 1999 (2934); for women 7% and for men 23%. As in 1999 an STDwas actually diagnosed in 31% of the visitors who were tested for STD. Patients with a confirmed STD were more often non-Dutch; the percentagewith homosexual and bisexual contacts was higher than among the totalgroup of patients. The most common STD for both men and women waschlamydia. The next most common STD for men were gonorrhoea, genitalwarts and non specific urethritis and for women candidiasis, bacterialvaginitis and genital warts. A rise of 71% in the number of gonorrhoeacases was observed; 77% for men and 43% for women. For chlamydia a riseof 41% was observed; 61% for men and 26% for women. In 2000 6491patients consulted for HIV and requested HIV-testing; 0.8% were foundpositive. Just as in 1999, homosexual and bisexual men were most oftenrepresented among the HIV-positives.