...of testing and education. The gonorrhea increase was due primarily to gay men returning to unsafe sexual practices in the belief that new AIDS treatments had lowered the risk of that deadly disease, said Dr. Ronald Valdiserri of CDC.

...very concerned about what the future might hold if these trends continue to go in an upswing," the CDC's Dr. Ronald Valdiserri said. The syphilis rate increased from 2.1 cases per 100,000 people in 2000 to 2.2 cases per 100,000 last...

...medications can have severe side effects, and some patients' bodies are resistant to the therapies, said Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC's National Center for HIV, Sexually Transmitted Disease and Tuberculosis Prevention...

...the most likely to be infected and the least likely to know that they had the virus, he said. On Sunday, Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, the CDC's deputy director for HIV, STD and TB prevention, warned that infection rates could climb again unless...