Many of my patients are respectable men and women in their 50s and 60s, newly single and sexually active for the first time in perhaps decades.
We treat 18,000 people a year and, at a rough estimate, I’d say 80 per cent are from the top socio-economic backgrounds. …
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For the past few years the Health Protection Agency, which monitors infectious diseases in Britain, has been warning about the staggering rise in STIs among baby-boomers. …
Of course, in numbers, infections among young adults and men who have sex with men are still far greater. But by putting our heads in the sand about this new, rapidly growing group, we are risking the health of a generation.
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