ABSTRACT
From 35.305 person attended the Dermatology and Venereology Department of Medical City Teaching Hospital of Baghdad university College of Medicine. 292 patients were seen suffering from STDs and investigated by systematic manner during the period extending from 31 st October 1987 to 1st May 1988 with the aim of forming an idea about the epidermological features of the STDs in Iraq. The incidence of STDs among 35.305 persons was 0.82%. The male to female ratio of studied patients was 4:1, and the following diseases in decending percentages were diagnosed: Gonorrhoea 21.2% Syphilis 10.94% and Chancroid 1.36%. It has become evident that the above diseases were sexually transmitted diseases [major group]. The other diagnosed STDs in this study [in occasion STDs] are: Non-gonococcal urethritis accounted, for 18 5%, Scabies for 21.9%. Molluscum contgiostun for 10.27%, Pediculosis pubis for 6.84%, Condylomata acuminata for 2.73%, Candida for 2.7%, Herpes genitalia for 2.05% and Trichomoniasis for 1.36%.These last seven diagnosed sexually transmitted diseases were found to be sexually and non-sexually transmitted. Therefore they shall be called here minor group of sexually transmitted diseases Young age sex ignorance, repid increase in income rapid industrialization, tourism, immigration, uncontrolled prostitution and inadequate medical facilities are factors that led to the spread of these diseases