Notifying STIs?

The Herald reports:

Sexually transmitted infections should be reclassified to enable better tracking and treatment as social influences sexual behaviour and more -resistant strains emerge, a authority says.

Regional Public Health, in the greater region, has supported legislation that will place , gonorrhea and syphilis on the list of notifiable diseases, meaning more information about cases would be collected by authorities.

But it also wants chlamydia – the country's most common STI – to be notified, as well as specified antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.

But would that work in , the STI capital of NZ? Wouldn't it be easier for authorities to just notify when someone in Hamilton doesn't have chlamydia? 🙂

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