The Health Protection Agency has published 'Sexually transmitted infection diagnoses and services provided in genitourinary medicine clinics in the UK in 2006'. The figures show that the number of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) diagnosed in genitourinary medicine clinics in the UK rose by 2% from 368,341 in 2005 to 376,508 in 2006. The number of new diagnoses of gonorrhoea has gone down again, but there are increasing levels of viral STIs like herpes and warts, in particular in young adults. Between 2005 and 2006 new diagnoses of genital herpes increased by 9% and genital warts by 3%.