Table 1. Male urethral discharge (UD) rate and male gonorrhoea case reporting rates by region, 2014.
WHO region | Countries in region | Countries reporting male UD | Median male UD case rate* (range) | Countries reporting male gonorrhoea | Median male gonorrhoea case rate* (range) |
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African region | 47 | 20 | 568.6 (30.1–3,579) | 5 | 50.1 (7.2–238) |
Region of the Americas | 35 | 11 | 74.6 (10.0–400) | 18 | 29.3 (1.9–153) |
Eastern Mediterranean region | 21 | 8 | 24.1 (7.3–614) | 6 | 3.2 (0.9–385) |
European region | 53 | 1 | 223 | 9 | 25.5 (2.9–61) |
Southeast Asia region | 11 | 5 | 121 (5.0–314) | 4 | 7.0 (2.4–20) |
Western Pacific region | 27 | 11 | 141 (9.0–1,171) | 11 | 88.6 (0.5–317) |
All regions | 194 | 56 | 144 (5.0–3,579) | 53 | 25.5 (0.5–386) |
* UD and GC case rate: per 100,000 men aged 15–49 years. Source: WHO Global STI Surveillance report 2015 [9].