Georgia ranks fourth in U.S. for STDs

A new account from Invigor Healthcare analyzing material from the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention s National Center for HIV Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention has revealed that Georgia has the fourth highest STD rate in the U S In Georgia saw a total of new STD cases about per residents putting Georgia among the four states where STD rates exceed cases per residents following Louisiana Mississippi and Alaska Other Southern states including Alabama North Carolina South Carolina and Arkansas also ranked in the top ten of STD rates due to challenges in prevention like gaps in healthcare access limited sexual healthcare development and structural fences to screening and restoration Georgia ranked the highest for new HIV cases in the country new cases third in the country for gonorrhea new cases fifth in the country for chlamydia new cases and th in the country for syphilis new cases While Richmond County Georgia had the highest rate of STD cases per residents at Fulton County followed close behind at and saw the highest volume of chlamydia gonorrhea syphilis and HIV in Georgia Nationwide the informed STD rates have climbed significantly over the past decade There were approximately million new STD cases up from million in Source Invigor Health analysis of CDC information Among these cases Black Americans were disproportionately impacted Black Americans saw a seven times higher rate of STDs compared to their white counterparts at cases per compared to respectively According to the document this disparity is influenced by systemic factors like unequal access to testing and remedy stigma and blockades to sexual medical tuition and care Source Invigor Biological analysis of CDC details While American women were about percent more likely than men to be diagnosed with an STD in this may likely be due to the higher likelihood of STD screenings at routine reproductive visits along with higher biological susceptibility to infection Among young people ages to however the rates for women are nearly double the rate for men of the same age Source Invigor Physiological analysis of CDC input You can read the full findings of Invigor Medicinal s document here Related stories Global work on a local level DeKalb gets new tuberculosis clinic Trump s tax and spending bill to impact healthcare for LGBTQ group The post Georgia ranks fourth in U S for STDs appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta