STD rate stable this year
Some 13% of the 69,000 people who have had tests for sexually transmitted diseases this year so far were actually infected, according to health institute figures.
The figure was 20% for homosexual men. There are now some 13,000 people in the Netherlands officially registered as having hiv.
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