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“Police killings were positively and significantly associated with syphilis and gonorrhoea rates among Black residents. Each additional police killing in 2015 was associated with syphilis rates that were 7.5% higher and gonorrhoea rates that were 4.0% higher in 2016."

Police Killings of Black People and Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 75 Large US Metropolitan Areas, 2016

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Ibragimov, Umedjon / Beane, Stephanie / Friedman, Samuel R. / Smith, Justin C. / Tempalski, Barbara / Williams, Leslie / Adimora, Adaora A. / Wingood, Gina M. / McKetta, Sarah / Stall, Ronald D. / Cooper, Hannah L. F.

Vol. 96 Issue 6, pp. 429–431, 2020

10.1136/sextrans-2019-054026

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