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Dept of Health

Answer

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women were tested for (a) chlamydia and (b) HIV in each of the last five years. [127543] Miss Melanie Johnson: The Department of Health does not hold central data on the total number of men and women who have undergone testing for chlamydia. We do, however, hold data on those who have tested and received a positive result. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Male Female 1998 18,937 24,975 1999 21,808 29,196 2000 26,632 34,815 2001 29,602 38,644 2002 34,341 43,796 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Health Protection Agency Estimates for the number of men and women tested for chlamydia through GUM Clinics, General Practitioners or Antenatal Care Providers in England between 1997 and 2002 are shown in the table. Note that data on antenatal testing of women are available only from 2000. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Male Female 19971 75,113 60,020 19981 79,665 63,998 19991 81,842 65,614 20002 93,262 345,083 20012 122,178 473,321 2002 161,911 544,466 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. In addition, all blood donations are screened for HIV and in the table below are the estimates of the numbers of the donations screened for both men and women. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Total 1997 3,040,022 1998 2,864,483 1999 2,922,045 2000 2,903,565 2001 2,849,740 2002 2,844,465 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1 Data from Genitourinary clinics and general practitioners only. 2 Includes preliminary unpublished data from the "National Survey of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood", source: Institute of Child Health. Source: In calculating these estimates, data from the following surveys were used: denominator survey (CDSC) to provide GP testing estimates, KC60 (CDSC) to provide GUM testing estimates, National survey of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (ICH) to provide Antenatal testing estimates.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

127543; 410 c173W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Diseases HIV/AIDS Screening Sexually transmitted infections Chlamydia

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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