But the STI has been increasing among young men, with 550.5 cases per 100,000 men ages 15 to 24 in 2022 compared to 523.5 cases per 100,000 men in that age group in 2017, according to the ...

Specifically, five out of ten men aged between 17 to 40 test positive for Gonorrhea. Gonorrhea still a public health problem in Uganda, health experts - New Vision Official ...

Experts believe that many factors account for gonorrhea's latest rebound, which has disproportionately hit young people ages 15 to 24, gay and bisexual men, and racial and ethnic minority groups ...

Key points. Gonorrhea can infect the throat without causing symptoms, making it easy to spread undetected. Studies in gay men show that kissing may transmit gonorrhea from throat-to-throat.

England will start a vaccination program for gonorrhea, the first such program in the world, starting in August. The focus of the vaccination program will be men who have sex with men (MSM) with a ...

The men who took doxycycline after sex were 84 percent less likely to contract chlamydia or syphilis and about half as likely to contract gonorrhea, compared with those who did not get the antibiotic.

By 2002, however, cases began rising again, with men who have sex with other men being disproportionately affected. The new report found cases of syphilis in their early, most infectious stages ...