Franklin County Community Health Needs Assessment

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Community Health Needs Assessment

Infectious Diseases

HIV Infection Prevalence and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Rate One of the Healthy People 2020 goals is to “promote healthy sexual behaviors, strengthen community capacity, and increase access to quality services to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in their complications.�

Franklin Area HIV Infection Prevalence, 2011 (Virginia Department of Health, HIV Surveillance Quarterly Report, 2011, http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/DiseasePrevention/DAta/#Profile)

HIV Prevalence Rate

Virginia

Franklin County

Henry County

307

71

100

Franklin Area Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates (per 100,000) (Virginia Department of Health, Virginia STD Surveillance Quarterly Report, 2011, http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/DiseasePrevention/DAta/#Profile) Geography

Early Syphilis

Gonorrhea

Chlamydia

6.4

81.5

431.6

0

21.3

271.2

1.9

33.5

362.9

Virginia Franklin County Henry County

Franklin Area Number of Reported Tuberculosis (TB) Rates per 100,000 (Virginia Department of Health, Division of Disease Prevention, 2008 - 2012) Geography

2008

2009

2010

3.9

3.5

3.4

Franklin County

0

0

0

Henry County

0

1.8

3.7

Virginia

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