{"id":1106,"date":"2026-09-25T04:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:38:02","slug":"std-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/std-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"STD Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UAE National Data on Viral STDs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) \u2013 data on HSV 2<\/li>\n<li>estimated prevalence: 45 million infected, or 1 in 6 people<\/li>\n<li>estimated incidence: 1.6 million new cases each year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Human Papillomavirus (HPV)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>estimated prevalence: 20 million infected, or 1 in 8 people<\/p>\n<p>subgroups may have 50% or more infected, 20 to 24 year old<\/p>\n<p><strong>women have highest prevalence<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>estimated incidence: 6.2 million new cases each year<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) \u2013 not commonly transmitted sexually<\/li>\n<li>estimated prevalence: 3.2 million chronically infected<\/li>\n<li>estimated incidence: 17,000 new cases each year<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>estimated prevalence: 1.4 million chronically infected<\/li>\n<li>estimated incidence: 43,000 new cases each year<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>estimated prevalence: 1.1 million infected<\/li>\n<li>estimated incidence: 56,300 new cases each year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HSV is a life-long STD. Cases build up as the pool of infected people<br \/>\ngets larger over time.<br \/>\nSome viruses like HBV and HPV self-resolve in most cases.<br \/>\nTherefore, the prevalence may not be as high over time, even though<br \/>\nthey may have a high incidence rate each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE National Data on Viral STDs Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) \u2013 data on HSV 2 estimated prevalence: 45 million infected, or 1 in 6 people estimated incidence: 1.6 million new cases each year Human Papillomavirus (HPV) estimated prevalence: 20 million infected, or 1 in 8 people subgroups may have 50% or more infected, 20 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,2,53,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-std","category-blog","category-hiv","category-hpv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaistdclinic.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}