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NEW YORK \u2014 Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases<\/a> \u2014 including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year \u2014 are prompting US health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is imperative that we \u2026 work to rebuild, innovate, and expand (STD) prevention in the US,\u201d said Dr. Leandro Mena of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n Infections rates for some STDs<\/a>, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. Last year the rate of syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases hit its highest since 1948. HIV cases are also on the rise, up 16% last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n And an international outbreak of monkeypox,<\/a> which is being spread mainly between men who have sex with other men, has further highlighted the nation\u2019s worsening problem with diseases spread mostly through sex.<\/p>\n David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, called the situation \u201cout of control.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials are working on new approaches to the problem, such as home test kits for some STDs that will make it easier for people to learn they are infected and to take steps to prevent spreading it to others, Mena said.<\/p>\n Another expert said a core part of any effort must work to increase the use of condoms.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty simple. More sexually transmitted infections occur when people are having more unprotected sex,\u201d said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.<\/p>\n Syphilis<\/a> is a bacterial disease that surfaces as genital sores but can ultimately lead to severe symptoms and death if left untreated.<\/p>\n But by 2002, cases began rising again, largely among gay and bisexual men, and they kept going. In late 2013, the CDC ended its elimination campaign in the face of limited funding and escalating cases, which that year surpassed 17,000.<\/p>\n By 2020, cases had reached nearly 41,700 and they spiked even further last year, to more than 52,000.<\/p>\n The rate of cases has been rising, too, hitting about 16 per 100,000 people last year. That\u2019s the highest in three decades.<\/p>\n https:\/\/nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Associated Press – September 19, 2022 NEW YORK \u2014 Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases \u2014 including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year \u2014 are prompting US health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts. \u201cIt is imperative that we \u2026 work to rebuild, innovate, and expand … Continue reading STD epidemic in US is \u2018out of control,\u2019 warn experts, CDC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[245,36,22,17045,17046,23,4521,16016,42,12700],"class_list":["post-21423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-cdc","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-dr-leandro-mena","tag-dr-mike-saag","tag-epidemic","tag-hiv","tag-monkeypox","tag-outbreak","tag-stds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5zx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21425,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions\/21425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}