A world first gonorrhoea vaccine is being rolled out from today in England with the aim of reducing soaring cases and saving millions of pounds for the NHS.
The programme will see local authority commissioned sexual health clinics offer the 4CMenB vaccine to patients at highest risk of the sexually transmitted infection (STI). This includes including gay and bisexual men with a recent history of multiple sexual partners or a bacterial STI in the previous 12 months.
The vaccine offers 30-40% protection from the infection, and the Department of Health and Social Care hopes that it could prevent as many as 100 000 cases. This could save the NHS more than £7.9m over the next decade, an analysis carried out by Imperial College London shows.1
The vaccination programme also aims to …
