Efforts to tackle rising sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Wirral could be jeopardised as rising costs pose a “prime risk” to services.
This is according to a new Wirral Council report and comes after warnings from the Local Government Association that sexual health services across England are “at risk of breaking point.”
Fresh statistics for 2022 show the number of new STIs on the Wirral has risen by 17.2% in the last year though new chlamydia cases have largely remained the same. However gonorrhoea cases have more than doubled compared to 2021 with syphilis also increasing. Sexually transmitted shigella, which causes violent diarrhoea and can be fatal, saw four cases compared to zero the year before.
