Life-Threatening STIs Are Spiking Across the US, Per CDC Data: ‘Out of Control’

New York Post ^ | Feb. 1, 2024 | Adriana Diaz

[nickcarraway]

Health officials are warning that the rise of life-threatening sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is “out of control.”

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, STIs are on a worrying rise putting millions of people’s lives at risk from entirely preventable infections. “STIs must be a public health priority,” the CDC warned on Tuesday.

The health agency noted that “the most alarming concerns” revolve around syphilis cases — which are at the highest level they’ve been in more than seven decades. Reported chlamydia cases have remained at a record high level but gonorrhea cases did decline for the first time in at least a decade.

[lightman]

it went from “social disease” to VD to STD to STI. What next?

STUPIDITY

[metmom]

Oh, the benefits of the sexual revolution......

[PeterPrinciple]

putting millions of people’s lives at risk from entirely preventable infections.

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Does the article address how to prevent?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Every time I see STD I get a flash back to the last time I was called into HR. Where I had to explain that no, I was not keeping track of sexual habits of employees, I was keeping track of Short Term Disability.

[2nd Amendment]

That’s what I can’t figure out? How can we stop this? Is global warming at fault?

[nickcarraway]

Andrew Tate is a misandrist, who scams men. He had a MLM scheme to take money from men, and he invented a cam scam to target men.

[MinorityRepublican]

I wouldn't say he's a misandrist, that's just liberal propaganda.

I never said he was an angel. A lot of it is due to his background. He had to hustle to make a living. So obviously, he's seedy. But sometimes it takes a seedy character to tell us the truth.

[dfwgator]

Remember, flies spread disease, so keep yours closed.

[NorthMountain]

Gentlemen: Only ever ‘do it’ with your wife.

Ladies: Only ever ‘do it’ with your husband.

[nwrep]

Mostly a red state problem according to stats published by the NY Post.

[daniel1212]

According to the CDC data, more than 170,000 syphilis cases were reported back in 1951. The number dropped dramatically after the widespread availability of antibiotics. By 1998, annual case numbers had dropped below 40,000, before creeping up again over the past two decades.

In 2021 the CDC estimated that 1 in 5 people in the U.S. have a sexually transmitted infection and at a cost to the U.S. healthcare system of billions of dollars annually. (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0125-sexualy-transmitted-infection.html)

Also relevant, by 2021 the percentage  of 18-24-year-olds who were married  was 5% for men and 8% for  women. with more cohabitating (fornicating) than were married    (https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/brown-manning-relationship-status-trends-age-gender-fp-21-25.html) 

 About half (54%) of adolescents age 15-19 have had some type of sexual experience.  (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590151621000113?via%3Dihub)

Never-married adults report engaging in sexual relations approx. 14 times per year more than married adults.   (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314273096_Declines_in_Sexual_Frequency_among_American_Adults_1989-2014)

Single Americans over 45 engage in sexual relations more  than married ones.  (https://www.aarp.org/relationships/love-sex/info-05-2010/2009-aarp-sex-survey.html

By 2008 a CDC study estimated that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States -- or 3.2 million teenage girls -- was infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis). (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080312084645.htm) And note that only 33%of women even between age 20-34 are married.

In 2017 it was estimated that about 45 percent of U.S. men and women were infected with the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV sexually transmitted disease - the most common sexually transmitted disease among men and women in the United States. Among women, the prevalence of HPV infection drops to about 22 percent as they age, but it remains high among men. (https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/news/20170119/nearly-half-of-us-men-infected-with-hpv-study-finds)

Syphilis (all stages) has increased 447 percent in the last two decades. Cases of P&S syphilis—the most infectious stages of the disease—have increased a staggering 781 percent since 2001.

African Americans accounted for nearly a third of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and primary and secondary syphilis (P&S) cases while only accounting for 12.1 percent of the US population. 

Meanwhile, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men were severely impacted by gonorrhea and syphilis in 2021. (https://www.naccho.org/blog/articles/new-cdc-report-more-than-2-5-million-u-s-cases-of-chlamydia-gonorrhea-and-syphilis-were-reported-in-2021)

As regards STD's and other conditions, as well as as well as suicides in the US among MSM and lesbians  and "transgendered" persons:

 

Overall, the practice pf sodomy has   (historically)   resulted in a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases  and effects besides HIV,  from Meningitis to  premature death.  Which diseases includes Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis A and B, HPV, Syphilis, HIV to Meningitis and body dysmorphia and eating disorders and recently Monkey pox. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have accounted for 83% of primary and secondary syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known in the United States. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have been found to be 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men. (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center states: Men who have sex with men and gay men are at increased risk for certain types of chronic diseases, cancers, and mental health problems…  #1: HIV/AIDS.  #2: Anal Papilloma  #3: Hepatitis  #4: Substance Use  #5: Depression and Anxiety  #6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)  #7: Prostate, Testicular, and Colon Cancer  #8: Alcohol  #9: Tobacco  #10: Body image problems and obesity. (https://www.vumc.org/lgbtq/key-health-concerns-msm-men-who-have-sex-men)

Anal cancer is particularly  one of the diseases that is far more prevalent among MSM than other population groups, being diagnosed in about 2 people out of every 100,000 people in the general population. In contrast, it is estimated that MSMs that are not infected with HIV are 20 times more likely to be diagnosed with anal cancer. HPV is present in approximately 65% of HIV negative MSMs and 95% of MSMs who are HIV positive. Anal cancer is caused by the same strains of HPV (Human Papillomavirus)  that cause cervical cancer in women. (https://cancer-network.org/cancer-information/gay-men-and-cancer/anal-cancer-hiv-and-gaybisexual-men)

Related to this is that,  

The risk of becoming infected with HIV during condomless anal sex is 10 to 20 times greater than condomless vaginal sex. Because the rectal lining is only one-cell thick, the virus can more easily reach immune cells to infect. (https://www.mtnstopshiv.org/news/rectal-microbicides-fact-sheet) 

Also, multiple studies [2017] have found a rise in unprotected sex among men who have sex with men. (https://europepmc.org/article/med/32332483)

Also reported, "People living with HIV in Canada had eight times the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other non-AIDS-related dementia as their HIV-negative counterparts, and they were diagnosed 12.5 years earlier [which in part may be due to more medical attention], according to an analysis published in BMJ Open. 

They also had higher rates of several other age-related chronic conditions....Antiretroviral treatment has been associated with kidney damage and cardiovascular disease, and viral hepatitis and alcohol use—both common among HIV-positive people—can cause liver disease."  (https://www.poz.com/article/people-hiv-diagnosed-dementia-13-years-earlier)

 Even when their disease is well controlled, people with HIV can develop aging-related conditions such as cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, kidney and liver disease, osteoporosis, and cognitive impairment decades ahead of their HIV-negative counterparts, and their life expectancy is significantly reduced.) 

 

And a new study shows evidence that  "HIV-positive people are at an increased risk of age-related diseases such as some cancers, frailty, osteoporosis, kidney disease, and neurocognitive disease. Researchers think that it is the HIV itself that accelerates the aging process by 14 years, rather than medications used to treat it."  (https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2015/03/25/study-people-hiv-age-14-years-faster)

Moreover, while (2020) one "life expectancy study has shown that HIV-positive people who start antiretroviral therapy (ART) promptly and have good access to medical care live as long as their HIV-negative peers," yet "the researchers found that HIV-positive people were living with additional health problems for many of those years – on average, they had major co-morbidities 16 years earlier than HIV-negative people."  (https://web.archive.org/web/20220625103005/https://www.aidsmap.com/news/mar-2020/yes-same-life-expectancy-hiv-negative-people-far-fewer-years-good-health)

A 2021 study of comparison of dementia incidence and prevalence between individuals (90% male) after age 50 with and without HIV infection in primary care from 2000 to 2016 found that HIV was associated with an 80% increase in dementia diagnosis overall compared with HIV-negative people. (https://www.poz.com/article/even-modern-era-people-hiv-increased-risk-dementia; https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/2022/03010/Comparison_of_dementia_incidence_and_prevalence.13.aspx  

In a Danish study of  "6,657,456 Danish-born individuals who were at least 15 years old and lived in Denmark from January 1980 through December 2021," in  which  "3,759 (52.5% assigned male at birth) were identified as transgender at a median age of 22," "there were 92 suicide attempts, 12 suicides, and 245 suicide-unrelated deaths among this group."  "Among over 6.6 million individuals, standardized suicide attempt rates per 100,000 person-years were 498 for those who were transgender compared with 71 per 100,000 person-years for those who were not transgender."

"Transgender individuals also had higher rates of mortality not related to suicide (aIRR 1.9, 95% CI 1.6-2.2) and higher rates of all-cause mortality (aIRR 2.0, 95% CI 1.7-2.4) compared with non-transgender individuals." (https://www.medpagetoday.com/)

"Transgender women [worldwide] are 49 times more likely to have HIV than other adults of reproductive age." (https://www.who.int/hiv/topics/transgender/en/)

Transgender women have a higher risk of venous thromboembolism, stroke and meningioma compared to cisgender men and cisgender women. Compared to cisgender men, transgender women have a higher risk of breast cancer and transgender women > 50 years old have a higher risk of fractures.

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32757514/)

[DoodleBob]

I think short-term debt or standard deviation.

Apparently there are more…

Acronym Definition
STD Standard
STD Sexually Transmitted Disease
STD Stunde (German: Hour)
STD Doctor(ate) of Sacred Theology (degree)
STD Short Term Disability
STD Short Term Disability (Insurance)
STD Standing
STD Stunden (German: Hours)
STD Steady
STD Standard Deviation
STD Sustainable Tourism Development (various locations)
STD Standard Transmission (car transmission)
STD Save the Date
STD Steward
STD Spot the Differences (games)
STD State Transportation Department
STD Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
STD Security Tools Distribution (Knoppix)
STD Storage Tank Division (various locations)
STD Saves the Day (band)
STD Savings Tax Directive (EU)
STD São Tome and Principe Dobra (ISO currency code)
STD St. David
STD Svensk Teknik och Design (Swedish: Swedish Engineering and Design)
STD Spyro the Dragon (game)
STD Set Direction
STD Selection Transmit Diversity
STD Semantic Type Definition
STD Super Twist Display
STD Sunbeam Talbot Darracq
STD Suspend to Disk
STD Save to Disk
STD Sacred Theology Degree (various schools)
STD State Transition Diagram
STD Short Term Debt (finance)
STD Seize the Day
STD Stabbed to Death (band)
STD Straight to DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)
STD Software Test Description
STD Star Destroyer (Star Wars)
STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing
STD Servicing Transfer Disclosure (finance)
STD Studiendirektor
STD Sigma Tau Delta (Sorority and English Honors Society)
STD Stud Book
STD Shaggy 2 Dope (Insane Clown Posse band member)
STD Severe Tire Damage (band)
STD Science and Technology Division
STD Scheduled Time of Departure
STD Second To Die (life insurance)
STD Set Direction Flag
STD Slant Tropospheric Delay (weather modeling)
STD Saturation Transfer Difference
STD Science and Technology for Development (European Union)
STD Salinity, Temperature, Depth
STD Synthetic Training Device
STD Software Test Design
STD Schaffer the Darklord (entertainer)
STD Special Taxing District
STD Sexual Tension Detroit (Detroit, MI)
STD Santo Domingo, Venezuela - Mayor Humberto Vivas Guerrero (Airport Code)
STD Standard Trunk Dialing
STD South Tibetan Detachment
STD Société des Touristes du Dauphiné (French: Tourists Society of Dauphin; France)
STD Small Target Detection
STD Sustainable Technology Development (Netherlands)
STD Socially-Transmitted Disease (aka Sexually-Transmitted Disease)
STD Software Test Document
STD Safely Tolerated Dose
STD Serial Transmit Data
STD Spécifications Techniques Détaillées (French: Detailed Technical Specifications)
STD Selective Transmit Diversity
STD Stick the Dealer (euchre)
STD Screw the Dealer (Euchre card game house rule)
STD Storage Technology Division
STD Space-Time Diagram
STD Sub Tropical Depression
STD Simplified Trellis Decoder
STD Step Transaction Doctrine
STD Student Technical Director
STD Shuttle Test Director (US NASA)
STD Sham Tseng Development (Hong Kong)
STD Skate Till Death (skateboarding group)
STD System Technology Demonstrator
STD Spanish Training Division
STD Stephen, Thomas, Dalton (Sacramento band)
STD Station de Traitement des Déchets (French: Waste Treatment Station)
STD Singly-Testable Dependent
STD Spatial-Temporal Detector
STD Spectral Theory of Diffraction
STD Solutions for the Disturbed (band)
STD Systems Target Decoder (MPEG systems)
STD Society for Theological Discussion
STD Subcutaneous Tissue Disorder
STD Steps to Dance (dance school; California)
STD Single-Trial Decoding
STD Standard Offline Test Driver
STD System Test Directive
STD Swimmer Transportation Device
STD Physically on Board under Instruction; Not Ship’s Company (US Navy)

[Robert357]

Learning from the great Covid fiasco; we need to quarantine all sexually active people, force them to be vaccinated with experimental drugs or loose their jobs and not be allowed out in public, and we need to come up with a symbolic “mask” or latex prophylactic that they wear proudly in public as a symbol of their obedience. Oh, wait, maybe they need to wear two of them.

[DoughtyOne]

Name changes have more to do with being PC than actually
helping people understand the issue.

Just change the information names, it won’t confuse anyone. /s

[cherry]

Porn/viagra/irresponsible sinful,immoral behavior.....what did we expect.

[Bikkuri]

What happened to STDs? Are they renaming this too?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I wonder how they could spin that to blame systematic racism, or maybe the Jews.

[Jonty30]

Homosexual communities are the cauldron from where all STI’s spread from.

[daniel1212]

It's Third World immigrants, gay males, and blacks driving the STD rate through the roof.

Mainly sodomy by any color:

By race/ethnicity, in 2021 Black/African American  individuals accounted for 40% (13,000) of the estimated 32,100 new HIV infections, 

Hispanic/Latino  individuals accounted for 29% (9,300) of new HIV infections, and White individuals accounted for 26% (8,200) of new HIV infections. 

In 2021, the highest rates of new HIV infections were among Black/African American persons (37.3), 

Hispanic/Latino persons (18.9), and persons of multiple races (17.0). 

According to CDC, in 2021, Black/African American persons made up approximately 12% of the population of the United States but accounted for 40% of new HIV infections. 

White persons made up 61% of the population of the United States but accounted for 26% of new HIV infections, and Hispanic/Latino persons made up 18% of the population of the United States but accounted for 29% of HIV infections.

Also,

  Medicaid is the largest source of insurance coverage for people with HIV in the United States, covering an estimated 40% of the nonelderly adults with HIV, compared to just 15% of the nonelderly adult population overall...Medicaid accounted for 45% of all federal HIV spending in FY221 and it is the largest source of public spending for HIV care in the U.S. In FY22, the federal government spent an estimated $13 billion on Medicaid services for people with HIV...Medicaid enrollment among people with HIV has grown over time  (https://www.kff.org/hivaids/issue-brief/medicaid-and-people-with-hiv/)

Before the Affordable Care Act, most individuals living with HIV were ineligible for Medicaid unless they had very low incomes, or were deemed permanently disabled due to an AIDS diagnosis. Starting in 2014, under the Affordable Care Act, states can receive federal Medicaid payments to provide coverage for the lowest income adults in their states, without regard to disability, parental status, or most other categorical limitations. (https://www.medicaid.gov/about-us/program-history/medicaid-50th-anniversary/entry/47641) 

Costs associated with engaging in sodomy also can include those for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) [which was] at more than $1,700 for 30 tablets (https://mosaicscience.com/story/hiv-prep-truvada-prevention-sti-std-lgbtqi-gay-condom-pride/).

The cost for  PrEP medication was about  2,000 a month, and which "Most health insurance plans, including Medicaid, cover." (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/stds-hiv-safer-sex/hiv-aids/prep) Under the Affordable Care Act, PrEP must be free under almost all health insurance plans. (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep/paying-for-prep/index.html) The rule says insurers must not charge copays, coinsurance or deductible payments for the quarterly clinic visits and lab tests required to maintain a PrEP prescription. (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/prep-hiv-prevention-pill-must-now-totally-free-almost-insurance-plans-rcna1470) 

For any Medicaid insured HIV-negative adult 18 years of age or older patients, lab testing and prescription medication costs are 100% covered. (https://www.louisianahealthhub.org/teleprep/) 

Meanwhile another volitional act, smoking (which I do not promote), is punished in various ways, while sodomy is basically subsidized and promoted, and any who opposed it are denigrated, and often penalized.

There are 1,194 municipalities with laws in effect that require non-hospitality workplaces, restaurants, and bars to be 100% smokefree.Jan 1, 2024 - https://no-smoke.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/mediaordlist.pdf

Nov 8, 2005 — More than 2,000 cities and counties now have laws that restrict indoor smoking .. - https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/QuitToLive/story?id=1292456

The average smoker spends $96.22 per month for the privilege of lighting up 8.9 times a day. And that’s without the local cigarette taxes imposed in some areas as a disincentive for the habit... - https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/are-cigarette-smokers-social-outcasts/

May 24, 2023 — Cigarettes are taxed at the federal, state, and sometimes even local levels. ... Taxes make up nearly half of the retail price of cigarettes ... - https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tobacco-tax-data-tool/

Add in New York City's tax of $1.50 per pack, and the $5.85 combined tax goes a long way in explaining why cigarettes cost over ten dollars a pack in the city. - https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2014/03/25/this-map-shows-why-pack/37994004007/

Smoking can raise health insurance premiums by 50% and increase life insurance premiums by three or four times.Aug 10, 2023. - https://www.retireguide.com/retirement-life-leisure/healthy-aging/costs/cost-of-smoking/

Aug 16, 2022 — We found that smoking rates will easily be double or triple a non-smoking rate. The increase will vary by your age, gender and the coverage ... Life Insurance For Smokers. - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/life-insurance/smokers/

Aug 31, 2021 — More than 50% ($125.7 billion) of smoking-attributable healthcare spending is funded by Medicare or Medicaid. When other federal healthcare ... - https://ash.org/hidden-costs-healthcare/

More stats: Negative effects of homosexual relations (primarily: also as due to heterosexual fornication): Physical, Psychological, Financial - and Spiritual

[KarlInOhio]

And stay six feet apart.