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Sharp increase in gonorrhoea notifications among young people, EU/EEA, July 2022 to June 2023
- Lina Nerlander1 , Lydia Champezou1 , Joana Gomes Dias1 , Gudrun Aspelund2 , Lina Berlot3 , Elisavet Constantinou4 , Asunción Díaz5 , Jevgenia Epštein6 , Erika Fogarassy7 , Victoria Hernando5 , Patrick Hoffmann8 , Derval Igoe9 , Irena Klavs3 , Pedro Pinto Leite10 , Kirsi Liitsola11 , Angeline McIntyre9 , Zsuzsanna Molnár7 , Anne Olaug Olsen12 , Yolanda Pires-Afonso8 , Renāte Putniņa13 , Kęstutis Rudaitis14 , Georgios Siakallis15 , Sacha de Stoppelaar16 , Barbara Suligoi17 , Tuula Hannila-Handelberg11 , Inga Velicko18 , Vítor Cabral Veríssimo10,19 , Maartje Visser16 , Maria Wessman20 , Otilia Mårdh1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Centre for Health Security and Communicable Disease Control, Directorate of Health, Reykjavik, Iceland 3 Communicable Diseases Centre, National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4 Ministry of Health, Nicosia, Cyprus 5 National Centre of Epidemiology, CIBER in Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC), Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain 6 Department of Communicable Diseases Epidemiology Health Board, Tallinn, Estonia 7 National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy, Budapest, Hungary 8 Health Directorate Luxembourg, Division de l’inspection sanitaire, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 9 HSE Public Health: National Health Protection Office, Dublin, Ireland 10 Directorate of Information and Analysis, Directorate-General of Health, Lisbon, Portugal 11 Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland 12 Department of Infection Control and Vaccine, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 13 The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Riga, Latvia 14 National Public Health Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania 15 Grigorios HIV Clinic, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus 16 Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Bilthoven, the Netherlands 17 National AIDS Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 18 Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden 19 Public Health Unit Cascais, Western Lisbon Local Health Unit, Lisbon, Portugal 20 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, DenmarkLina Nerlanderlina.nerlander ecdc.europa.eu
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Citation style for this article: Nerlander Lina, Champezou Lydia, Gomes Dias Joana, Aspelund Gudrun, Berlot Lina, Constantinou Elisavet, Díaz Asunción, Epštein Jevgenia, Fogarassy Erika, Hernando Victoria, Hoffmann Patrick, Igoe Derval, Klavs Irena, Pinto Leite Pedro, Liitsola Kirsi, McIntyre Angeline, Molnár Zsuzsanna, Olsen Anne Olaug, Pires-Afonso Yolanda, Putniņa Renāte, Rudaitis Kęstutis, Siakallis Georgios, de Stoppelaar Sacha, Suligoi Barbara, Hannila-Handelberg Tuula, Velicko Inga, Cabral Veríssimo Vítor, Visser Maartje, Wessman Maria, Mårdh Otilia. Sharp increase in gonorrhoea notifications among young people, EU/EEA, July 2022 to June 2023. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(10):pii=2400113. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.10.2400113 Received: 20 Feb 2024; Accepted: 06 Mar 2024
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Gonorrhoea cases increased steeply in women aged 20 to 24 years across 15 EU/EEA countries in July to December 2022 and January to June 2023 with, respectively, 73% and 89% more cases reported than expected, based on historical data from 2015 to 2019. Smaller increases among men due to heterosexual transmission were observed in nine EU/EEA countries. Interventions to raise awareness among young people about sexually transmitted infection risks are needed, emphasising the benefit of safe sexual practices and testing.
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