How many people have been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested is set out in the following tables. These data are extracted from databases held at Health Protection Scotland and are based on laboratory reports of positive diagnoses of HIV, genital herpes, genital chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and infectious syphilis by NHS board from 1999 to 2009. The information in tables one to four is not yet available for 2010.
Cells featuring four cases or fewer (marked with "*") have been suppressed in order to maintain confidentiality. In some instances, secondary suppression of cells featuring greater than four cases has been necessary in order to prevent calculation of figures.
It is important that those at risk of infection come forward for testing and treatment. Current sexual health policy encourages this and has also improved access to sexual health services. This will initially lead to increases in recorded incidents of STIs, particularly chlamydia.
Table 1
- Genital herpes simplex virus 1999-2009: Laboratory diagnoses by NHS Board of Report
NHS board
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Ayrshire and Arran
25
20
0
18
41
66
75
88
87
115
124
Borders
*
*
*
18
21
29
21
29
28
*
47
Dumfries and Galloway
10
15
0
17
27
35
59
100
91
91
143
Fife
*
*
0
*
82
81
43
92
94
99
136
Forth Valley
54
54
0
30
62
81
84
75
61
66
95
Grampian
98
121
140
136
137
192
275
267
304
258
331
Greater Glasgow and Clyde
280
272
397
249
341
471
466
527
667
531
739
Highland
65
64
99
77
92
100
97
101
104
78
108
Lanarkshire
27
24
0
28
30
21
34
54
77
74
116
Lothian
282
254
292
297
365
391
367
399
454
386
538
Orkney
*
*
6
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Shetland
*
*
0
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Tayside
85
73
85
64
99
104
149
85
132
161
241
Western Isles
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Unspecified
*
0
*
*
0
*
0
*
*
*
*
Total
933
908
1,026
937
1,304
1,575
1,677
1,830
2,105
1,871
2,627
Note:
Under/non-reporting for Fife from 1999 to 2002 and for Argyll andClyde, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, Forth Valley and Lanarkshire in 2001
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) experienced a problem with the receipt of genital herpes data from Tayside during the last quarter of 2006 and the first quarter of 2007
It is not possible to distinguish a primary genital herpes infection and a recurrent one using the laboratory positive reporting system at HPS. These figures represent all cases who test positive each year for a genital herpes infection.
Table 2
- Genital Chlamydia Infection, 1999-2009: Laboratory Diagnoses by NHS Board of Report
NHS board
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Ayrshire and Arran
288
275
356
813
888
887
778
891
1,123
1,053
818
Borders
70
51
51
48
189
259
244
230
262
270
394
Dumfries and Galloway
118
282
328
408
386
502
494
598
565
480
483
Fife
-
517
533
866
1,002
1,199
1,116
1,198
1,211
1,232
1,142
Forth Valley
327
354
442
373
595
608
704
916
887
1,085
1,096
Grampian
728
1,160
1,235
1,348
1,427
1,800
1,885
1,781
1,805
1,768
1,838
Greater Glasgow and Clyde
1,634
2,064
2,928
3,127
4,113
4,621
4,826
4,766
4,714
5,955
5,133
Highland
360
500
531
626
630
788
743
711
746
693
746
Lanarkshire
252
400
728
890
885
982
1,299
1,534
1,570
1,389
1,736
Lothian
1,295
1,206
2,432
2,742
2,971
3,016
3,344
3,414
3,141
3,448
3,286
Orkney
*
10
41
45
55
51
55
38
50
27
46
Shetland
*
8
24
33
41
50
53
37
23
26
NA
Tayside
595
822
953
1,069
1,189
1,281
1,730
1,790
1,737
1,577
1,527
Western Isles
0
0
0
*
9
25
18
22
7
51
32
Unspecified
0
0
56
*
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
5,676
7,649
10,638
12,391
14,380
16,069
17,289
17,926
17,841
19,054
18,277
Note: Under/non-reporting for Fife in 1998-99.
Table 3 – Gonorrhoea, 1999-2009: L