Sexual health: Public health leaders call for 10 year strategy to tackle soaring STI rates

Public health leaders have called on the government to take “bold” action and commit to a 10 year sexual and reproductive health plan for England amid “dramatic increases” in syphilis, gonorrhoea, and antibiotic resistant sexual infections.1

The report was published on 10 September by the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), the Sexual Health Commissioners’ Group, and the Local Government Association (LGA). In it, the leaders warn that increasing demand on services during a decade of budget cuts has led to staff leaving and left the system vulnerable to outbreaks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

They …