Epidemic analysis on AIDS,gonorrhea and syphilis from 1990 to 2013 in Huangpu District,Shanghai / 上海预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the epidemic characteristics of AIDS, gonorrhea and syphilis from 1990 to 2013 in Huangpu District, Shanghai, and to evaluate the effects of prevention and control in this re-gard. Methods Ecology research method was used to analyze epidemic characteristics of sexually trans-mitted disease. Results From 1990 to 2013, the incidence of gonorrhea increased first and then de-creased in recent years, while that of syphilis had been increasing since 1994, among which latent syphilis was the most.AIDS cases occurred each year from 2006.The young male adults of 25-39 years old were the main population who had these three kinds of sexually transmitted diseases.The cases of AIDS and syphilis were mainly found in those engaged in housekeeping, housework and the unemployed, and gonor-rhea was mostly with workers. Conclusion The incidence of gonorrhea in Huangpu District has been de-creasing, while the prevention and control of AIDS and syphilis still needs to be strengthened.The inci-dence is influenced by the change of people’ s awareness and behavior.In future, we should focus on key groups like young males, housekeeping, unemployed and recurrent population.