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Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - June 11, 2003
The cross-party committee of MPs highlighted huge increases in rates of sexually transmitted infections over the past six years, with new cases of gonorrhoea increasing by 87%, chlamydia by 108%, and syphilis by 486%. HIV infections have increased by an annual average of 10% over the same period.
Sexual health clinics need a 90% increase in specialist consultant posts, teaching of sex education in schools is too biological say MPs. Writing in The Guardian Professor Michael Adler of the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London condemned sex education in schools as "àtoo little, too late".
Although the government launched an HIV and sexual health strategy in 2001, this has been undermined because sexual health has not been made a national health priority.
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