Scotland's Sexual Health Information (SSHI) Report

New Publication - 25 November 2008

This is the fourth annual report produced by the Sexually Transmitted Infections Epidemiology Advisory Group (STIEAG), for Scotland. It continues the changes seen in last year's report whereby a number of different data sources were used to describe a wider picture of sexual health, rather than sexually transmitted infections (STIs) alone. The aim of the report remains the same - to promote a better understanding of sexual health in Scotland.

This new digest version of the annual sexual health report provides readers with the headline data and the most important developments in 2007.

SSHI Report: Year of Publication 2008

We have also produced a longer and more detailed version of the sexually transmitted infections chapter (Chapter 2). This expanded version includes all the NHS board specific data .

The full version of Chapter 2 can be found on the HPS website www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/bbvsti/sexuallytransmittedinfection.aspx .

Annual Sexual Health Reports

An annual STI report has been successfully published by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) and Information Services Division (ISD) for a number of years.

In 2005 HPS and ISD published 'Setting the Scene' a report looking at STIs including HIV in Scotland in 2004. This report was followed up in 2006 with 'Moving Forward'.

Following the publication of 'Moving Forward' it was felt that future reports should have a broader focus and better reflect the increasing numbers of integrated specialist sexual health services in Scotland. A decision was made to add to the STI data and include, for example, information on teenage pregnancies and abortions.

The first of the 'sexual health' reports is the STIOSHI Report (STIs and Other Sexual Health Information) and was published in November 2007. This title was chosen in order to reflect the transition from the STI report to the Sexual Health report so that users would still recognise the report but would also see the change.

The next sexual health report will be published in November 2008.

Setting the Scene (Published November 2005)

Moving Forward (Published November 2006)

STIOSHI (Published November 2007)

Please note Figure 1.1 was amended, and the STIOSHI Report re-published on 28 November 2008