Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme
The Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes leads the development and implementation of the global health sector strategy on the elimination of sexually transmitted infections as a public health threats.
Strategic information
Data helps to focus and guide public health interventions, both globally and in countries, to improve the delivery of health services to all people. Strong STI surveillance systems are required to:
- monitor epidemic trends,
- identify server or emerging outbreaks,
- strategically driect resources for prevention, treatment and control effots, and
- assess the effectiveness of these efforts.
WHO provides global reports; collects and validates data with partners through the Global AIDS Monitoring mechanism; and develops guidelines for strategic information, case surveillance, patient monitoring, digital health and data use. The strategic information team works with regions and countries to strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems, which are a key building block in country health systems.
Incident cases of 4 curable STIs
Fact sheet
Slides
Data on STIs from WHO Global Health Observatory
Data on syphilis
Data from the WHO GASP Network
Publications
All →WHO is accountable for reporting back to the World Health Assembly on progress in implementing the Global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis...
15 June 2019
Standard protocol to assess prevalence of gonorrhoea and chlamydia among pregnant women in antenatal...
Purpose of the protocol This document has been designed to provide a framework to support local and national STI prevalence studies. The aim of these studies...
19 December 2018
Report on global sexually transmitted infection surveillance 2018
Globally, more than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur each day. According to WHO global estimates for 2016, there were roughly...
It is important to help countries to determine how to prioritize and support these critical surveillance activities through the development of simple...