Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
THEME ISSUE
International Polar Year
Perspective
Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections in the North American Arctic
Dionne Gesink Law*
, Elizabeth Rink†, Gert Mulvad‡, and Anders Koch§
, Elizabeth Rink†, Gert Mulvad‡, and Anders Koch§
Table 4
Chlamydial infection and gonorrhea rates per 100,000 population by age and sex reported for Greenland (GLD) and Denmark (DK), 2004–2006
| Characteristic | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLD | DK | GLD | DK | GLD | DK | ||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||||
| Chlamydia, age, y | |||||||||||||||||
| 15–19 | 9,378 | 20,332 | 944 | 3,361 | 7,986 | 31,383 | 1,243 | 3,891 | 12,462 | 27,125 | 1,345 | 4,095 | |||||
| 20–24 | 13,229 | 16,890 | 1,966 | 3,526 | 9,003 | 20,594 | 2,264 | 3,720 | 17,154 | 21,854 | 2,391 | 3,768 | |||||
| 25–29 | 6,444 | 8,590 | 978 | 1,284 | 5,776 | 11,006 | 1,089 | 1,322 | 10,837 | 10,445 | 1,114 | 1,335 | |||||
| >30 | 916 | 1,229 | 86 | 41 | 805 | 1,005 | 85 | 87 | 1,630 | 1,507 | 93 | 88 | |||||
| Total | 2,481 | 4,158 | 287 | 511 | 3,852 | 5,597 | 324 | 554 | 3,704 | 5,468 | 343 | 571 | |||||
| Gonorrhea, age, y | |||||||||||||||||
| 15–19 | 3,714 | 7,346 | 13.9 | 7.7 | 2,141 | 7,801 | 11.5 | 4.0 | 5,360 | 8,763 | 11.1 | 6.5 | |||||
| 20–24 | 4,663 | 4,450 | 46.4 | 7.4 | 2,993 | 5,648 | 39.9 | 13.1 | 5,994 | 5,858 | 32.5 | 16.0 | |||||
| 25–29 | 3,056 | 1,795 | 51.3 | 4.5 | 1,984 | 3,184 | 44.9 | 4.7 | 3,755 | 2,374 | 39.4 | 10.8 | |||||
| >30 | 493 | 434 | 10.7 | 1.2 | 224 | 312 | 14.1 | 1.1 | 363 | 498 | 12.4 | 1.2 | |||||
| Total | 1,047 | 1,301 | 13.6 | 1.9 | 1,174 | 1,550 | 14.6 | 2.0 | 1,252 | 1,609 | 12.5 | 2.6 | |||||
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