Prisoners: Sexually Transmitted Infections
(asked on 6th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidences of sexually transmitted diseases were reported in prisons in England and Wales in each of the last four years.
Data on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are now sourced from the Genitourinary Medicine Clinic Activity Dataset, Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) services return. Data from GUM clinics on prisoners are unavailable prior to 2011.
For the most recent two years for which data is available, the following table shows all new STI diagnoses among prisoners in England. Data from Genitourinary Medicine Clinic Activity Dataset relate only to GUM services which are located in England.
| 2011* | 2012** |
Chlamydia (GUM clinic diagnoses only, all ages) | 97 | 155 |
Gonorrhoea | 11 | 19 |
Herpes: anogenital herpes (1st episode) | 11 | 8 |
Syphilis: primary, secondary and early latent | <5 | 6 |
Warts: anogenital warts (1st episode) | 226 | 380 |
All new STIs*** | 495 | 773 |
HIV diagnoses | 9 | 17 |
*Data on prisoners are significantly underreported in 2011
** 2012 data for chlamydia and all new STIs are not comparable to data from previous years
*** All new STIs include new HIV infections diagnosed when a person was a prisoner, explained further at point 4 of the explanatory notes for table one.
Notes:
1. Data follow calendar years (January to December), not financial years (April to March). |
2. Data represent the number of diagnoses reported and not the number of people diagnosed. |
3. 2012 data for chlamydia and “All new STIs” are not comparable to data from previous years. Chlamydia diagnoses made among prisoners in GUM clinics that were reported as “previously diagnosed at another service” have been excluded from 2012 data only. |
4. Data for “All New STIs” include: chancroid; lymphogranuloma venerum (LGV); donovanosis; chlamydia; gonorrhoea; herpes: anogenital herpes (1st episode); HIV: new diagnosis; molluscum contagiosum; non-specific genital infection; pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and epididymitis: non-specific; scabies; pediculus pubis; syphilis: primary, secondary and early latent; trichomoniasis and warts: anogenital warts (1st episode). |
5. Data on prisoners are significantly underreported in 2011 due to the phased introduction of Sexual Health and HIV Activity Property Types (SHHAPT) STI surveillance codes. |
6. Number of diagnoses between 1 and 4 with a population <10,000 are presented as ‘<5' to prevent deductive disclosure. Please see link for further details on data sharing and confidentiality:
www.hpa.org.uk/webc/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1247816526850 |
The following table also contains the number of chlamydia diagnoses among prisoners aged 15-24 years in England for 2009-2011. Data are sourced from the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP). Data from NCSP relate only to NCSP services which are located in England.
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
Chlamydia (NCSP diagnoses outside GUM clinics, 15-24 years only) | 1,179 | 1,292 | 1,209 | N/A |
Notes:
1. Chlamydia data from community services are sourced from the National Chlamydia Screening Programme for 2009-2011 only. Since 2012, this data source has been replaced by a new laboratory reporting system (CTAD) that does not indicate diagnoses made among prisoners. |
2. Data follow calendar years (January to December), not financial years (April to March). |
3. Data represent the number of diagnoses reported and not the number of people diagnosed. |
4. Data include chlamydia diagnoses from people aged 15-24 only. |