Claim: Every four minutes a young person in England is diagnosed with gonorrhoea or chlamydia.
Fact-check: Is a young person diagnosed with an STI in England every four minutes? - Full Fact
Verdict: in 2017, there were 144,000 diagnoses for those aged 15-24 in england or the equivalent of one every four minutes. that's not the same as the number of people diagnosed, someone might get diagnosed more than once, or with several stis.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2018-11-09T00:00:00