ArticlePloS one2026
Enhancing surveillance of sexually transmitted infections in England with gender identity and behavioural data: The GUMCAD STI Surveillance System.
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- From silos to synergies: harnessing the power of sexual health data sources in England to understand changing epidemiology and inform policy.Sexually transmitted infections · 2026Review
- Foundations for progress: insights from the PrEP Impact Trial supporting change to PrEP delivery and implementation in England.Sexually transmitted infections · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere has been an increasing trend in bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in England since the early 2000s. Since 2008, surveillance of STIs in England has been conducted using the Genitourinary Medicine Clinic Activity Dataset (hereafter referred to as 'GUMCAD'), a depersonalised dataset of all attendances at all publicly-commissioned sexual health services (SHS). The aim of is this article is to describe and evaluate the piloting and rollout of an enhanced specification of GUMCAD at SHS in England.
methodsGUMCAD was enhanced in 2019 to allow SHS to report the gender identity (whether cisgender, transgender, gender diverse) of service users, and selected behavioural information collected during routine sexual history-taking such as the number of recent sex partners (last 3 months).
resultsFeasibility and acceptability of reporting these new data were confirmed in the pilot stage. 2023 was the first year over which most SHS (93%, 224/241) submitted enhanced GUMCAD data. Of all 4,610,410 consultations at SHS in 2023, gender identity (96% of consultations) and data on whether this varied from the sex registered at birth (88% of consultations) were well reported. Transgender women, transgender men, and gender-diverse individuals (identifying as non-binary or in any other way) respectively comprised 0.4%, 0.4%, and 0.5% of all consultations in 2023. There was less complete reporting of recent sex partners but, where reported, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men were more likely to report multiple recent sex partners.
conclusionsThis enhancement provides novel insights into sexual health need relevant to targeting existing and novel preventative interventions for STIs such as 4CMenB vaccination for gonorrhoea and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) for syphilis in England. The reporting of these new STI surveillance data also raise new complexities in interpretation, and behavioural data completeness will require further support and development.
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