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. 2024 Mar;29(10):2400113.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.10.2400113.

Sharp increase in gonorrhoea notifications among young people, EU/EEA, July 2022 to June 2023

Lina Nerlander  1 , Lydia Champezou  1 , Joana Gomes Dias  1 , Gudrun Aspelund  2 , Lina Berlot  3 , Elisavet Constantinou  4 , Asunción Díaz  5 , Jevgenia Epštein  6 , Erika Fogarassy  7 , Victoria Hernando  5 , Patrick Hoffmann  8 , Derval Igoe  9 , Irena Klavs  3 , Pedro Pinto Leite  10 , Kirsi Liitsola  11 , Angeline McIntyre  9 , Zsuzsanna Molnár  7 , Anne Olaug Olsen  12 , Yolanda Pires-Afonso  8 , Renāte Putniņa  13 , Kęstutis Rudaitis  14 , Georgios Siakallis  15 , Sacha de Stoppelaar  16 , Barbara Suligoi  17 , Tuula Hannila-Handelberg  11 , Inga Velicko  18 , Vítor Cabral Veríssimo  10   19 , Maartje Visser  16 , Maria Wessman  20 , Otilia Mårdh  1
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Sharp increase in gonorrhoea notifications among young people, EU/EEA, July 2022 to June 2023

Lina Nerlander et al. Euro Surveill. 2024 Mar.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; Gonorrhoea; STI; condom use; sexual behaviour; testing.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Trends in the number of gonorrhoea cases by month and by age group, EU/EEA countries, January 2015–June 2023 (n = 154,044)
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Figure 2
Number of gonorrhoea cases (January 2015–June 2023) compared with the exceedance threshold (January 2022–June 2023), by month, EU/EEA
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