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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning clinics play a major role in VD screening.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

Family Planning Perspectives 7(6): 274. November-December 1975.

ABSTRACT

Incidence of gonorrhea in the United States increased 21/2 times between 1965 and 1974. Because this desease if

often asymptomatic in women, many health care services now test routinely for gonorrhea. From June 1974 to June

1975, family planning facilities tested 29%, or 2 1/2 million, of the 8.9 million women checked in gonorrhea

screening programs. Among all facilities, 4.2% of the tests were positive while 2.5% of the family planning

screening programs. Family planning services tested three times as many women as did venereal disease clinics.

Among all family planning facilities, health department clinics accounted for half the total tests while private groups

accounted for 870;000 tests. Community health centers performed 700,000 tests, more than a third of which occured

in family planning clinics. Community clinics tested six times as many women as community prenatal/ob-gyn

clinics, however, more than twice as many gonorrhea tests were performed in hospital family planning clinics.

Venereal disease clinics accounted for the highest rate of positive tests (19%); health department cancer screening

clinics had the lowest rate (1.0%). Among hospital outpatients, the positive test rate was 2.2% in cancer screening

clinics, 3.0% in family planning clinics, 3.5% in prenatal/ob-gyn clinics, and 4.6% in combination and other clinics.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 2569-06)

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