Creator:

Alberta Health and Wellness

Geography:

North America > Canada > Alberta

Categories:

• Infectious Diseases
• STI/HIV/AIDS

Tags:

• blood-borne pathogens
• chlamydia
• gonorrhea
• hepatitis
• HIV
• pelvic inflammatory disease
• sexually transmitted infections
• STI
• syphilis

Date:

2008

URL:

http://www.health.alberta.ca/documents/BBP-STI-surveillance-2008.pdf

Annotation:

This report contains data on selected blood-borne pathogen and sexually transmitted infections in Alberta. Pathogens studied include HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), HCV (hepatitis C virus), HBV (hepatitis B virus; we report only acute HBV infections with the exception of HBV prenatal screening data), chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis (infectious, non-infectious, and congenital), mucopurulent cervicitis (MPC), non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), and selected co-infections. Measures are based on newly diagnosed cases of infection per year, up to 2006. Reported rates are age-adjusted according to 1996 Census Canada data. Information on methodolgy and data limitations is included.