Appendix

Appendix Table: Prevalence of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and Trichomoniasis Among Various Populations of Women, 1974–1993
				% of Women Diagnosed With
Region/ Country	Date	Ref. No.	Population	Chla- mydia	Gonor- rhea	Syphillis	Trichomo- niasis
AFRICA
Burkina Faso	1990–91	6,346	290 pregnant women		0.3	2a
Cameroon	1989–91	6,346	2,445 pregnant women			13a
	1980b	205	296 peripartum women		10
	1977	91	296 pregnant women		14
Cape Verde	1983	277	316 pregnant women			4c
Ethiopia	1974–75	222	2,717 pregnant women			17d
Gabon	1982–85	188	623 pregnant women			14d
	1980–82	331	530 pregnant women		6
	1988b	165	598 postpartum women	10
Ghana	1985b	25	162 women attending a gynecological clinic
Kenya	1981b	174	15,649 pregnant urban women			1e
	1984–86	276	1,725 IUD acceptors	12	4
	1984	232	1,013 urban women in labor	21	7
	1984	153	728 peripartum women		7
	1984b	174	200 pregnant urban women		5
	1987	174	402 pregnant urban women		1
Mozambique	1982–83	167	1,468 pregnant women			2–10d
Nigeria	1986–89	143	2,224 women having cervical cytology tests				3
Swaziland	1986	108	283 pregnant women			13c
Tanzania	1978	176	405 family planning clients		7
	1983–84	58	5,430 pregnant women			16c
	1992	6	259 pregnant women			5e
Uganda	1980b	14	295 women in low-fertility area		18
Zaire	1993b	164	1,103 pregnant women			1e	18
Zambia	1982b	247	202 pregnant women			13d
	1983	117	1,437 pregnant women			13c
Zimbabwe	1986–87b	180	188 pregnant women	9
	1986–87	180	214 women in labor		7		19
	1983b	181	199 pregnant women		0		31
	1979–80	161	18,470 pregnant women			0.5c
ASIA & PACIFIC
China	1986	120	1,000 family planning clients or gynecologic outpatients	1
Fiji	1985–86	110	244 pregnant women	45
			440 pregnant women		2	9d
India	1986	18	650 village women		0.3
			558 ever-married women				14
	1988–89	18	115 pregnant women in Bombay			5c
Indonesia	1987b	311	1,503 women in cervical cytology screening campaign in Bali				8
			11,240 women in cervical cytology screening campaign in Surabaya				30
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Brazil	1984b	41	41 gynecology patients				24
Chile	1983	193	29,501 asymptomatic women undergoing cervical cytology screening				11
	1984b	71	256 pregnant women		2
	1984b	27	394 asymptomatic gynecology patients		5
Eastern Caribbean	1990	6,346	160 pregnant women	13
Guatemala	1992	6,346	303 family planning clients	7	0.3	0.3c	7
			301 pregnant women	5	1	0.3c	10
Nicaragua	1993b	80	636 antenatal or family planning clients	4	1		8
NEAR EAST
Saudi Arabia	1989b	17	106 pregnant women	9
	1986b	124	4,361 pregnant women			<1d
Tunisia	1993b	24	1,030 pregnant women	3		0.5e
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
Canada	1988b	30	520 women seek abortion	11
New Zealand	1984–85	16	2,034 family planning clients	18
United States	1985–87	87	7,879 women attending a health clinic for adolescents	6-8
	1986	98	2,761 family planning clients	11
	1991	305	5.2 million women participating in targeted screening programs		2
	1987	204	4,920 urban women in labor			0.02f
	1991b	62	13,816 pregnant women				13
aBoth rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay (TPHA) positive. bYear of publication (year of study not specified) cRapid plasma reagin (RPR) or Venereal Disease REsearch Laboratory (VDRL) test positive dTPHA or fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorption (FTA-ABS) test positive eTest not specified fRPR and FTA-ABS tests positive

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