Improving ethnic data within surveillance must be priority

Black people in some areas are at greatly increased risk of gonorrhoea, and, in the light of the recent substantial increase in gonorrhoea, the generalisability of such local findings has taken on great importance. 3 Routine returns from sexually transmitted diseases clinics do not include informati...

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Published in:BMJ 1997-11, Vol.315 (7116), p.1160-1160
Main Authors: Nicoll, Angus, Catchpole, Mike, Watson, John M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Africa - ethnology
AIDS
AIDS/HIV
Data Collection
Disease risk
Epidemiology
Ethnic Groups
Female
Gonorrhea
HIV
HIV Infections - ethnology
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Letter
Letters
Male
Medical specialists
Sexually transmitted diseases
STD
Surveillance
Tuberculosis
United Kingdom - epidemiology
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Summary:Black people in some areas are at greatly increased risk of gonorrhoea, and, in the light of the recent substantial increase in gonorrhoea, the generalisability of such local findings has taken on great importance. 3 Routine returns from sexually transmitted diseases clinics do not include information on ethnic group; they were designed to provide administrative rather than surveillance data.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.315.7116.1160a