Setting up a surveillance system for sexually transmitted diseases in the general population with prospective data collection from private-practice and public-practice doctors in Hong Kong

Table 4 Prevalence of Hong Kong adults (> = 18 years old) presenting STD/RTI to public-practice or private-practice doctors during June 4-18

	Male	Female	Total
Urethral/vaginal discharge	0.0008	0.0015	0.0012
Genital ulcer	0.0004	0.00007	0.0002
Genital growth	0.0008	0.0002	0.0005
Ectoparasitic infestations	0.00005	0.00002	0.00003
Other syndromes	0.0006	0.0002	0.0004
Had any one of the above syndromes	0.0026	0.0018	0.0022

Remarks: Data on 1 particular day were missing in 2 male SHCs: estimates for that day were made by entering the average of the 15-days data of the 2 particular SHC

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