“Hello, Gerald, welcome to Norway. Chlamydia is our most popular souvenir,” read the Instagram post of condom manufacturer Geil Norway.
Underneath the post was written “Welcome, Gerald. Protect yourselves through the weekend!”
– We want to use humor instead of pointing fingers when we encourage young adults to use our products to protect themselves, so the arrival of the world’s largest warship became an opportunity we couldn’t pass up. We hope both Americans and Norwegians defend themselves together against venereal diseases, both with and without aircraft carriers lying in the fjord, says Even Jystad, general manager and co-founder of the company, in a press release.
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Norway’s high chlamydia numbers stand out on a worldwide basis. Doctor at Sex and Society, Trine Aarvold believes this can be due to two things:
– Firstly, we are very bad at using condoms in Norway, but on the other hand, we are very good at testing ourselves and have a good offer for testing throughout the country. This means that we find a great many cases which make our statistics high. Many young people may not have received the education they needed during the pandemic and we see that many infections, not just sexually transmitted, have increased after corona, says Aarvold to Nettavisen.
Aarvold thinks it is good that visitors are informed about common infections, and generally thinks that condom advertising is fine, but does not want to comment specifically on Geil Norway’s advertising.
– Some tourists come from countries that may be concerned with preventing the spread of more serious infections than chlamydia. Gonorrhea is an infection that is more common in the United States, but which has seen a sharp increase in Norway in the past year. The danger of gonorrhea increasing is that we often have to treat with antibiotics, and gonorrhea is on the way to becoming resistant to what we have to treat with, she says.
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She points out that in the past year there has been a greater focus on the use of condoms among young people.
– We should help young people to get into good habits by providing information about sexually transmitted infections, as well as knowledge about using condoms. It will make them safer, and more people will make better choices for themselves.
Aarvold says that changing the culture takes time, but experiences that young people they talk to themselves want condoms to be more accepted to use than it is today.
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Increase in chlamydia and gonorrhea
– We are sitting on data that shows that young Norwegians are far too poor at protecting themselves when they have sex, but we believe that too little is being done positively to encourage them to do something about it, says Jystad.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) reported a sharp increase in chlamydia and gonorrhea in the latter half of 2022.
The HIV and syphilis figures have also increased between the turn of the year 2021 and 2022.
– From August 2022, the number of reported cases of chlamydia has been higher than in previous years. This coincides with a corresponding increase in gonorrhea among young heterosexually infected people, and may be due to increased social contact after the reopening of society. Some changes in criteria for reporting and monitoring may also have contributed to the increase in the reporting rate, said senior physician Anne Olaug Olsen at FHI in a press release earlier this year.
Chlamydia is the most widespread sexually transmitted disease in Norway, and the incidence is increasing particularly among the young. A total of 29,271 cases of chlamydia were reported in 2022.
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– Increased condom use is crucial to limiting the spread of chlamydia and gonorrhea. At the same time, it is very important to have good infection control guidance and thorough infection tracing around each case, says Olsen.
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2023-05-25 11:59:46
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