Prevalentie van seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen (SOA) en HIV-infectie bij bezoekers van de SOA-polikliniek van het Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam-Dijkzigt; een vergelijking van de jaren 1993 en 1998

To gain an impression as to the possible trends in the prevalence of VD and HIV between 1993 and 1998.

Design

Retrospective.

Method

Data of age, gender, ethnic background, sexual preference, intravenous drug use and a diagnosis of VD or HIV infection for persons attending the VD Outpatient Clinic of the Department of Dermato-Venereology of the Dijkzigt University Hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for the first time were compared for the years 1993 and 1998.

Results

The number of patients examined was 3099 (1894 men and 1205 women) in 1993 and 3696 (1878 men and 1818 women) in 1998. No diagnosis of veneral disease was made in 58.9 and 56.2 of them, respectively. The prevalence of HIV infection decreased from 1.3 in 1993 to 0.6 in 1998. This was caused mainly by a decline in the prevalence of HIV-antibodies among men with homosexual contacts. In the total population, the prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis decreased significantly (from 5.4 to 2.5 and from 9.3 to 7.5, respectively), but there was no similar decrease among the men with homosexual contacts.