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Africa

• Globalization and Health
  • Systematic review of facility-based sexual and reproductive health services for female sex workers in Africa [2014]

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Final Statement. Advisory Meeting: Integrating and strengthening responses to mpox, syphilis, and other STIs on the road to elimination. São Paulo, 3–4 April 2024 [2024]
  • New Generations Free of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Chagas Disease in the Americas 2018. ETMI Plus [2019]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections

Asia

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Expert Consultation on Advancing Implementation Research on Syphilis, HIV and Hepatitis in Asia, Guangzhou, China, 23-25 September 2017 : meeting report [2017]

Asia-Pacific

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • National HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme Managers Meeting for Selected Asian and Pacific Island Countries, Manila, Philippines, 27-30 June 2017 : meeting report [2017]
  • Regional assessment of HIV, STI and other health needs of transgender people in Asia and the Pacific [2013]

Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • STI Guidelines Australia
  • Mycoplasma genitalium
  • Australasian Contact Tracing Guidelines

• Australian Prescriber
  • Updating the management of sexually transmitted infections [2015]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Wide variation in sexually transmitted infection testing and counselling at Aboriginal primary health care centres in Australia: analysis of longitudinal continuous quality improvement data [2017]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Awareness, Usage and Perceptions of Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (doxyPEP) for Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Australia: Insights From a National Cross-Sectional Survey [2026]

• PLoS ONE
  • Point-of-Care Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea: Implications for Clinical Practice [2014]

• Scientific Reports
  • Cost-effectiveness of resistance-guided therapy for Mycoplasma genitalium in Australia [2024]

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • A Systematic Review of Kissing as a Risk Factor for Oropharyngeal Gonorrhea or Chlamydia [2023]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Comprehensive testing for, and diagnosis of, sexually transmissible infections among Australian gay and bisexual men: findings from repeated, cross-sectional behavioural surveillance, 2003–2012 [2013]

Australia, New Zealand

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • Interim position statement on doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (Doxy-PEP) for the prevention of bacterial sexually transmissible infections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand - the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM) [2023]

Bangladesh

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Bangladesh
  • National guidelines for management of sexually transmitted infections [2020]

Belgium

• EuroSurveillance
  • Estimation of antimicrobial resistance of Mycoplasma genitalium, Belgium, 2022 [2024]

Brazil

• Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
  • Sexually transmitted infections - laboratory diagnosis [2019]

• Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
  • Public policies on sexually transmitted infections in Brazil [2021]
  • Brazilian Protocol for Sexually Transmitted infections 2020: approaching sexually active individuals [2021]
  • Brazilian Protocol for Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2020: sexually transmitted enteric infections [2021]
  • Brazilian Protocol for Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2020: infections that cause urethral discharge [2021]
  • Brazilian Protocol for Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2020: infections that cause genital ulcers [2021]
  • Brazilian Protocol for Sexually Transmitted Infections 2020: human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection [2021]

Canada

• BC Centre for Disease Control
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections

• BMJ Open
  • Incidence and risk factors of C. trachomatis, N. gonorrhoeae and syphilis among a cohort of urban Canadian gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, 2017-2023: informing the potential impact of doxycycline prophylaxis [2026]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Approach to sexually transmitted infection testing for men who have sex with men [2024]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents [2019]

• Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
  • Recommendation on screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care for individuals not known to be at high risk [2021]
  • Chlamydia and Gonorrhea (2021) [2021]

• CMAJ
  • A practical approach to the diagnosis and management of chlamydia and gonorrhea [2023]

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta treatment guidelines for sexually transmitted infections (STI) in adolescents and adults 2018
  • Alberta sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections strategic framework 2018-2021
  • Alberta guidelines for post-exposure management and prophylaxis : HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections

• Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections and Bloodborne Pathogens

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Summary of the National Advisory Committee on Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (NAC-STBBI) Statement: Recommendations on Screening for Syphilis in Non-Pregnant Adults and Adolescents [2024]
  • Stigma and sexually transmitted infections [2018]
  • Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections

• Public Health Ontario
  • Case and Contact Management for STIs: Internet-Based Contact Tracing [2019]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

China

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Rural-to-urban migrants are at high risk of sexually transmitted and viral hepatitis infections in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Risk Factors of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections in China: A Systematic Review of Reviews [2015]

Croatia

• Central European Journal of Public Health
  • Digital technology and HIV, HCV and STI voluntary counselling and testing: good practice example from Croatia [2022]

• Croatian Medical Journal
  • Changes in sexually transmitted infections-related sexual risk-taking among young Croatian adults: a 2005-2021 three-wave population-based study [2023]

Eastern Europe

• Acta Dermato-Venereologica
  • Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of mycoplasma genitalium infections in East European countries [2010]

Eswatini

• Ministry of Health Eswatini
  • Eswatini National Sexually Transmitted Infections Guidelines [2018]

Ethiopia

• Ministry of Health Ethiopia
  • National guidelines for the management of sexually transmitted infections using syndromic approach [2015]

Europe

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Recommendations for collection and integration of community-based testing and linkage to care data into national surveillance, monitoring and evaluation systems for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections: results from the INTEGRATE Joint Action [2021]

• BMC Public Health
  • Awareness and knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among school-going adolescents in Europe: a systematic review of published literature [2011]

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Public health considerations on the use of doxycycline for post-exposure prophylaxis for bacterial sexually transmitted infections in the EU/EEA [2026]
  • Monitoring of the responses to sexually transmitted infection epidemics in EU/EEA countries, 2024 [2025]
  • Mapping and review: harnessing sexual behaviour survey data for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections [2025]
  • Technologies, strategies and approaches for testing populations at risk of sexually transmitted infections in the EU/EEA [2021]
  • Developing a national strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections [2019]
  • Utilising social media to support HIV/STI prevention: evidence to inform a handbook for public health programme managers [2017]
  • Utilising social media for HIV/STI prevention programmes among young people [2017]
  • Communication strategies for the prevention of HIV, STI and hepatitis among MSM in Europe [2016]
  • STI laboratory diagnostics in Europe [2013]
  • A comprehensive approach to HIV/STI prevention in the context of sexual health in the EU/EEA [2013]
  • Sexually transmitted infections

• EuroSurveillance
  • Using doxycycline for prophylaxis of bacterial sexually transmitted infections: considerations for the European Union and European Economic Area [2023]
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on testing services for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections in the WHO European Region, March to August 2020 [2020]

• F1000Research
  • Screening is not associated with reduced incidence of gonorrhoea or chlamydia in men who have sex with men (MSM); an ecological study of 23 European countries [2019]

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • IUSTI Europe Position Statement on use of DoxyPEP: June 2024 [2024]
  • IUSTI 2024 European guidelines for the management of partners of persons with sexually transmitted infections [2024]
  • 2018 European guideline on the organization of a consultation for sexually transmitted infections [2019]
  • 2016 European guideline on Mycoplasma genitalium infections [2016]
  • Treatment Guidelines (Europe) – IUSTI

• PLoS ONE
  • Changes in the prevalence of self-reported sexually transmitted bacterial infections from 2010 and 2017 in two large European samples of men having sex with men–is it time to re-evaluate STI-screening as a control strategy? [2021]

• WHO European Region
  • Regional action plans for ending AIDS and the epidemics of viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections 2022–2030 [2023]
  • Disruption in services for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region: a scoping review [2022]
  • Consultation on the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) 2022-2030: virtual meeting report: Copenhagen, Denmark and online 16-17 June 2021 [2022]

France

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Factors associated with bacterial sexually transmitted infection screening uptake and diagnosis among men who have sex with men in France [2024]

• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Evaluation of commercial, customized microdilution plates for Ureaplasma parvum, Ureaplasma urealyticum, and Mycoplasma hominis antimicrobial susceptibility testing and determination of antimicrobial resistance prevalence in France [2024]

Germany

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • The Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections [2016]

• Infection
  • Is doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis being utilised in Germany? Insights from an online survey among German men who have sex with men [2025]

Guyana

• Ministry of Health Guyana
  • National Guidelines on the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections [2022]

High-income countries

• AIDS and Behavior
  • The Cost-Effectiveness of HIV/STI Prevention in High-Income Countries with Concentrated Epidemic Settings: A Scoping Review [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • What Works? Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Blood-Borne Viruses in Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia Living in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2019]

Hong Kong

• Centre for Health Protection
  • Recommendations on STI Testing for MSM in Hong Kong [2020]

• Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • A Web-Based Sexual Health Intervention to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections in Hong Kong: Model-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [2023]

India

• Indian Journal of Public Health
  • Joint Statement on Triple Elimination of the Vertical Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B Initiative of West Bengal: Indian Public Health Association, West Bengal Academy of Pediatrics, Neonatology Society of West Bengal, Bengal Obstetric and Gynecological Society, Association of Physicians of India, Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists, West Bengal [2026]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • National Technical Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reproductive Tract Infections 2024 [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Vulnerability to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) / Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among adolescent girls and young women in India: A rapid review [2024]

International

• Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica et Adriatica
  • Sexually transmissible bacterial enteric pathogens [2025]

• Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
  • Genital ulcers caused by sexually transmitted agents [2022]

• Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
  • Point-of-Care Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections A Review of Recent Developments [2020]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Independent clinic-based evaluation of point-of-care testing for the screening of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoea and Trichomonas vaginalis in women-at-risk in Australia, Guatemala, Morocco, and South Africa [2024]

• BMC Medicine
  • Diagnostic accuracy of pooling urine, anorectal, and oropharyngeal specimens for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• BMJ Global Health
  • At-home specimen self-collection as an additional testing strategy for chlamydia and gonorrhoea: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Multiplexed technologies for sexually transmitted infections: global evidence on patient-centered and clinical health outcomes [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in body fluids associated with sexual activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Systematic review of the literature on viral persistence and sexual transmission from recovered Ebola survivors: evidence and recommendations [2016]

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Mpox vaccine acceptance and its predictors among people who have risky sexual practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
  • Newer and emerging sexually transmitted infections: A narrative review [2026]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The diagnostic accuracy of pooled testing from multiple individuals for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: a systematic review [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Use of AI in Identification of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Anogenital Dermatoses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2025]
  • Motivations, Facilitators, and Barriers of Donation-Based Interventions in HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Research: A Systematic Review [2025]

• Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Trends of fluoroquinolones resistance in Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma urogenital isolates: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Journal of Infection and Public Health
  • HIV, hepatitis, and syphilis self-testing among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Web-Based Service Provision of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention, Testing, Linkage, and Treatment for Key Populations: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Association between the infections of Trichomonas vaginalis and uterine cervical human papillomavirus: a meta-analysis [2023]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Missed opportunities for HIV testing among those who accessed sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, tested for STIs and diagnosed with STIs: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Counselling behavioural interventions for HIV, STI and viral hepatitis among key populations: a systematic review of effectiveness, values and preferences, and cost studies [2023]

• Mycoses
  • Sexually Transmitted Dermatophyte Infections-A Scoping Review [2025]

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Ebola RNA Persistence in Semen of Ebola Virus Disease Survivors [2017]

• New Microbiologica
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Global Trends, Diagnostic Advances, and Emerging Challenges [2025]

• PLoS Medicine
  • The Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Integration of HIV, Hepatitis B, and C, and sexually transmitted infections services: A scoping review of the benefits and challenges [2026]
  • Barriers and facilitators to the diagnosis of HIV and other STIs in primary care within publicly funded healthcare systems: A systematic review of qualitative studies [2026]
  • Costing of National STI Program Implementation for the Global STI Control Strategy for the Health Sector, 2016-2021 [2017]

• Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
  • Effectiveness of audiovisual interventions in increasing knowledge about sexually transmitted infections: a systematic review [2025]

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Partner Services in STD Prevention Programs: A Review [2016]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Digital interventions for STI and HIV partner notification: a scoping review [2024]
  • Advancing prevention of sexually transmitted infections through point-of-care testing: target product profiles and landscape analysis [2017]
  • Advancing point of care diagnostics for the control and prevention of STIs: the way forward [2017]

• Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
  • A review of current guidelines and research on the management of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adults [2020]

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • CROI 2026: Global Epidemiology and Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases [2026]
  • CROI 2025: global epidemiology and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases [2025]
  • CROI 2024: Global Epidemiology and Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases [2024]

• UNAIDS
  • UNAIDS information/guidance note on the mpox response [2024]
  • The BBS-lite: A methodology for monitoring programmes providing HIV, viral hepatitis and sexual health services to people from key populations — UNAIDS–WHO 2024 Implementation Tool [2024]
  • Innovate, Implement, Integrate: Virtual interventions in response to HIV, sexually transmitted infections and viral hepatitis [2022]

• Vaccine
  • The global roadmap for advancing development of vaccines against sexually transmitted infections: Update and next steps [2016]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Approach to an STI consultation in Primary Care

Japan

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Declining antibiotic consumption and changing sexually transmitted infection dynamics in Japan: A national ecological time-series analysis, 2013-2024 [2026]

Kenya

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Evaluation of WHO screening algorithm for the presumptive treatment of asymptomatic rectal gonorrhoea and chlamydia infections in at-risk MSM in Kenya [2013]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Framework for Monitoring HIV/STI Services for Key Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean [2019]

Lebanon

• Sexual Health
  • Resilience of STI service delivery in community-based organizations during the 2024 armed conflict: insights from Lebanon [2026]

Liberia

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Implementation of a National Semen Testing and Counseling Program for Male Ebola Survivors — Liberia, 2015–2016 [2016]

Low and middle income countries

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Facilitators and barriers to point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted infections in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review [2022]

• BMC Public Health
  • Partner Notification for sexually transmitted infections in developing countries: a systematic review [2010]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Sexually Transmitted Infection Services for Adolescents and Youth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Perceived and Experienced Barriers to Accessing Care [2016]
  • Interventions to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections, Including HIV, Among Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of the Published and Gray Literature [2016]

• World Health Organization
  • Integrating HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections with primary health care – Learning from countries [2025]
  • The diagnostics landscape for sexually transmitted infections [2023]

Malawi

• Ministry of Health Malawi
  • Malawi Guidelines for Syndromic Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections 2017 [2017]

Nepal

• BMJ Open
  • Availability and readiness to provide sexually transmitted infections and HIV testing and counselling services in Nepal: evidence from comprehensive health facility survey [2020]

• Ministry of Health and Population
  • National Guidelines on Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections [2022]

Netherlands

• EuroSurveillance
  • Emergent informal use of doxycycline post- and pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men and transgender and gender diverse people, the Netherlands, 2024 [2025]

• Sexual Health
  • Risk perceptions of chlamydia and gonorrhoea among Dutch youth prior to a new sexually transmitted infection testing policy: a cross-sectional survey study [2026]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Frequency and determinants of consistent STI/HIV testing among men who have sex with men testing at STI outpatient clinics in the Netherlands: a longitudinal study [2017]

New Zealand

• New Zealand Sexual Health Society
  • NZ STI Guidelines

Nigeria

• WHO African Region
  • Global health sector strategy on sexually transmitted infections 2016–2021: implementation framework for the African Region [2017]

Pacific Islands

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Chlamydial and gonorrheal neglected sexually transmitted diseases among Pacific Islanders of the Western Pacific Region-A narrative review and call to action [2023]

Pakistan

• Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
  • Challenges in screening of sexually transmitted viral infections of the female genital tract: Where do we stand? - A scoping review [2022]

Papua New Guinea

• BMJ Open
  • Performance of syndromic management for the detection and treatment of genital Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis among women attending antenatal, well woman and sexual health clinics in Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional study [2017]

Republic of Korea

• Investigative and Clinical Urology
  • Korean sexually transmitted infection guidelines 2023 revision, guideline update of viral infections: Genital herpes and anogenital warts [2024]
  • 2023 Korean sexually transmitted infections guidelines for non-gonococcal bacterial infection (chlamydia, syphilis, etc.) by the Korean Association of Urogenital Tract Infection and Inflammation [2024]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Applying the RE-AIM Framework to Evaluate the Dissemination and Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sexually Transmitted Infections [2015]

Rwanda

• Ministry of Health Rwanda
  • National guidelines for management of viral hepatitis B, C and sexually transmitted infections [2024]
  • National Guidelines for Prevention and Management of HIV and STIs [2016]

Samoa

• Ministry of Health Samoa
  • National Comprehensive Guideline on STI diagnosis, treatment and management [2018]

Singapore

• Communicable Diseases Agency
  • National HIV, Hepatitis C, and STI Programmes

• National Centre for Infectious Diseases
  • Sexually-Transmitted Infections

• National Skin Centre
  • STI Management Guidelines [2021]

South Africa

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Impact of Point-of-Care Testing on the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections in South Africa: Evidence from the HVTN702 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccine Trial [2023]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Comparing the Integration of Syndromic versus Etiological Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections Into HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Services for Adolescent Girls and Young Women, in South Africa [2023]

• National Department of Health South Africa
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections Management Guidelines 2018 [2018]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Variation in HIV care and treatment outcomes by facility in South Africa, 2011–2015: A cohort study [2021]

• Southern African HIV Clinicians Society
  • Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2022 guideline for the management of sexually transmitted infections: Moving towards best practice [2022]

Spain

• Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas
  • New Prevention Measures in Venereology: Evidence Review on the DoxiPrEP/PEP Antibiotic and the 4CMenB Vaccine [2025]
  • AEDV Expert Recommendations on the Management of Suppurative Sexually Transmitted Infections [2025]
  • AEDV Expert Document on the Management of Ulcerative Venereal Infections [2025]
  • Expert Recommendations from the AEDV on Legal Aspects Surrounding the Management of Sexually Transmitted Diseases [2024]
  • AEDV Expert Consensus Document on the Organization of a Multidisciplinary Unit for Patients With or at Risk of Venereal Infections [2024]

• Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
  • New advances and challenges in sexually transmitted infections in the adolescent population. Document of the Working Group on HIV and STIs of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (SEIP) [2026]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Consensus on Recommendations for Safe Sexual Activity during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic [2020]

Sri Lanka

• Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections Management Guidelines [2019]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • A systematic review of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Aetiology of vaginal discharge, urethral discharge, and genital ulcer in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-regression [2024]

Taiwan

• Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Risk of suicide attempts among patients with sexually transmitted infections: A Nationwide population-based matched cohort study [2026]

Tajikistan

• Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
  • The costs of a sexually transmitted infection outreach and treatment programme targeting most at risk youth in Tajikistan [2009]

United Kingdom

• BMJ Open
  • Diagnosis and treatment of chlamydia and gonorrhoea in general practice in England 2000–2011: a population-based study using data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink [2015]

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • British Association of Sexual Health and HIV National guideline for the management of infection with Mycoplasma genitalium, 2025 [2026]
  • Guidance on STI Testing, 2021 and 2023 [2023]
  • British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) United Kingdom national guideline for the management of sexually transmitted enteric infections 2023 [2023]
  • BASHH updated position statement on doxycycline as prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections [2022]
  • Guidance for the design of self-sampling packs and associated support for self-sampling processes within Sexually Transmitted Infection and Blood Borne Virus testing [2021]
  • BASHH position statement on the inappropriate use of multiplex testing platforms and suboptimal antibiotic treatment regimens for bacterial sexually transmitted infections [2021]
  • BASHH National Guideline on the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Related Conditions in Children and Young People (2021) [2021]
  • Mycoplasma Genitalium 2018 [2018]
  • UK National Guidelines on safer sex advice [2012]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 [2022]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Reducing sexually transmitted infections [2022]
  • Colli-Pee for first void urine collection [2021]
  • Sexually transmitted infections: condom distribution schemes [2017]

• Public Health England
  • Use of dual nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) for chlamydia and gonorrhoea
  • Promoting the sexual health and wellbeing of people from a Black Caribbean background: an evidence-based resource
  • Promoting the sexual health and wellbeing of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
  • Doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis for STIs: PHE response

• Sexual Health
  • Improving digital partner notification for sexually transmitted infections and HIV through a systematic review and application of the Behaviour Change Wheel approach [2024]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Application of the COM-B model to facilitators and barriers to HIV and STI testing among people from Black African and Black Caribbean communities in the UK: a scoping review [2025]
  • Assessment of online self-testing and self-sampling service providers for sexually transmitted infections against national standards in the UK in 2020 [2023]

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea infection – testing by Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAAT) [2024]
  • Sexually transmitted infections reference laboratory (STIRL): Clinical reference and surveillance services
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): migrant health guide
  • STI Prioritisation Framework
  • Monkeypox: semen testing for viral DNA
  • Monkeypox: cleaning sex-on-premises venues
  • Investigating and managing outbreaks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • Hepatitis

United States

• Academic Emergency Medicine
  • Sex disparities in chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in U.S. adult emergency departments: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2021]
  • Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2020]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Screening for Nonviral Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults [2014]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Expedited Partner Therapy [2018]

• American Family Physician
  • Preventive Care for Men Who Have Sex With Men [2024]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Updates From the 2021 CDC Guidelines [2022]
  • Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections: Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment [2022]
  • Binx IO Point-of-Care Test for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections [2022]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2016]

• American Journal of Medicine
  • STI/HIV Testing and Prevalence of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Among Persons with Their Specified-Type Sex Partner [2022]

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening in the U.S. [2021]

• American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
  • Direct-to-Consumer Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Services: A Position Statement from the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association [2021]

• Annals of Family Medicine
  • Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study [2025]

• Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Changes in Sexual Behaviors with Opposite-Sex Partners and Sexually Transmitted Infection Outcomes Among Females and Males Ages 15-44 Years in the USA: National Survey of Family Growth, 2008-2019 [2023]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • CDC Clinical Guidelines on the Use of Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention, United States, 2024 [2024]
  • Potential for Recurrent Mpox Outbreaks Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men — United States, 2023 [2023]
  • Strategies Adopted by Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men to Prevent Monkeypox virus Transmission — United States, August 2022 [2022]
  • Prevalence and Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Correctional Settings: A Systematic Review [2022]
  • Modeling the Impact of Sexual Networks in the Transmission of Monkeypox virus Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men — United States, 2022 [2022]
  • Evidence Papers for the CDC Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines [2022]
  • STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Detection of STIs in Special Populations - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Clinical Prevention Guidance - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Recommendations for Providing Quality Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical Services, 2020 [2020]
  • Availability of Injectable Antimicrobial Drugs for Gonorrhea and Syphilis, United States, 2016 [2019]
  • Confidentiality Issues and Use of Sexually Transmitted Disease Services Among Sexually Experienced Persons Aged 15–25 Years — United States, 2013–2015 [2017]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Review of the Performance of Laboratory-Based Molecular Diagnostics for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae [2026]
  • Point-of-care Tests for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Review of the Literature [2026]
  • Evidence Review for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance Development on the Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae [2026]
  • A Position Statement on Mpox as a Sexually Transmitted Disease [2023]

• Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Medical and Legal Implications of Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Children [2010]

• Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Sexually transmitted infection laboratory testing and education trends in US outpatient physician offices, 2009–2016 [2021]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • United States HIV & STIs

• International Journal of STD & AIDS
  • Expanding access to STI care with free of charge, convenient services in sexual health walk-in clinics [2025]

• JAMA
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Review [2022]

• JAMA Pediatrics
  • Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Screening for Adolescents and Young Adults in Emergency Departments [2025]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Estimated Lifetime Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Trichomoniasis in the United States in 2018 [2023]

• Journal of Pediatrics
  • Clinician Adherence to Recommendations for Screening of Adolescents for Sexual Activity and Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV [2014]

• Journal of Women's Health
  • Clinical Updates in Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2024 [2024]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm [2021]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

• New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
  • Prevention and Treatment of Mpox
  • Mycoplasma genitalium Management in Adults
  • Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections

• Nursing for Women's Health
  • A Scoping Review of Approaches to Extragenital Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening for Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • Changes in sexual behaviors, network attributes, and STI testing among 15-44-year-olds by marital/cohabiting status and partner number: National Survey of Family Growth, 2008-19 [2026]
  • Primary care screening for sexually transmitted infections in the United States from 2019 to 2021 [2025]

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Sexually Transmitted Infection and Chlamydia/Gonorrhea Testing Have Not Returned to Pre-COVID Levels, 5 U.S. Jurisdictions, 2018-2022 [2025]
  • Estimates of the Lifetime Productivity Costs of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis in the United States [2024]
  • Trends in Follow-up Testing Among Patients Positive for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the Veterans Health Administration, 2013 to 2019 [2023]
  • Changes in Oral and Anal Sex With Opposite-Sex Partners Among Sexually Active Females and Males Aged 15 to 44 Years in the United States: National Survey of Family Growth, 2011-2019 [2023]
  • Can Diagnostic Codes in Health Care Claims Data Identify Confirmed Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections? A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2003 to 2017 [2021]
  • A Narrative Review of Where We Are With Point-of-Care Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in the United States [2021]
  • A Comparison of US Clinical Laboratory Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing Practices Before and After the 2014 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Testing Recommendations [2021]
  • Testing for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in US Public Health Laboratories, 2016 [2020]
  • The Role of Behavioral Counseling in STD Prevention Program Settings [2016]

• StatPearls
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • Updates on Testing, Treatment, and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States, 2025 [2025]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening [2021]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling [2020]

• Women's Health
  • Combating sexually transmitted infections in U.S. active-duty servicewomen: A social-ecological view of sociodemographic risk factors [2026]

Western countries

• International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
  • Pharmacists' acceptability of provision of sexually transmitted infection services: a scoping review [2025]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO consolidated operational handbook on sexually transmitted infections [2026]
  • Sustaining priority services for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections in a changing funding landscape [2025]
  • Recommendations on the delivery of health services for the prevention and care of sexually transmitted infections: web annexes: evidence-to-decision frameworks and systematic reviews for the delivery of health services for the prevention and care of sexually transmitted infections [2025]
  • Recommendations on the delivery of health services for the prevention and care of sexually transmitted infections [2025]
  • Overview of WHO recommendations on HIV and sexually transmitted infection testing, prevention, treatment, care and service delivery [2025]
  • Integration of HIV and syphilis testing services as part of Mpox response: standard operating procedures [2025]
  • Integrated drug resistance action framework for HIV, hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted infections, 2026–2030 [2025]
  • In vitro diagnostic medical devices used for the qualitative detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis and Trichomonas vaginalis nucleic acid [2025]
  • Guidelines for the management of asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections [2025]
  • WHO global research priorities for sexually transmitted infections [2024]
  • Updated recommendations for the treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Treponema pallidum and new recommendations on syphilis testing and partner services: Web Annex F. Evidence-to-decision framework and summary of findings tables for sexually transmitted infection (STI) partner services [2024]
  • Updated recommendations for the treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Treponema pallidum and new recommendations on syphilis testing and partner services [2024]
  • Surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing for mpox (monkeypox): Interim guidance, March 2024 [2024]
  • Self-testing implementation toolkit for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections [2024]
  • Recommended package of interventions for HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for sex workers [2024]
  • Recommended package of interventions for HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for men who have sex with men [2024]
  • Recommendations for the treatment of Trichomonas vaginalis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Candida albicans, bacterial vaginosis and human papillomavirus (anogenital warts) [2024]
  • Mobilize for action on sexually transmitted infections – Berlin meeting report, October 2023 [2024]
  • Implementing the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2022–2030: report on progress and gaps 2024 [2024]
  • Implementing the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2022–2030: Report on progress and gaps 2024, second edition [2024]
  • Framework for monitoring sexually transmitted infections and strengthening surveillance [2024]
  • Recommended package of interventions for HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for people who inject drugs: policy brief [2023]
  • Policy brief on integrating related infections into HIV surveillance systems [2023]
  • Point-of-care tests for sexually transmitted infections: target product profiles [2023]
  • New good practice statement on counselling behavioural interventions for key populations to prevent HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs [2023]
  • Medicines for HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections in low- and middle-income countries: forecasts of global demand for 2022-2026 [2023]
  • Laboratory and point-of-care diagnostic testing for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV [2023]
  • Guide to conducting programme reviews for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections [2023]
  • Guidance for national strategic planning: health sector response to HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections [2023]
  • Policy brief: Consolidated guidelines on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations [2022]
  • Global health sector strategies on, respectively, HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections for the period 2022-2030 [2022]
  • Consolidated guidelines on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations [2022]
  • Guidelines for the management of symptomatic sexually transmitted infections [2021]
  • Global progress report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2021 [2021]
  • Assessment of country implementation of the WHO global health sector strategy for sexually transmitted infections (2016 –2021): results of a national survey [2021]
  • Accelerating the global Sexually Transmitted Infections response: report on the first informal Think-Tank meeting [2021]
  • Self-collection of samples for sexually transmitted infections [2020]
  • Preventing HIV and other STIs among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV incidence [2020]
  • Sexually transmitted infections: Evidence brief [2019]
  • Prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the era of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV [2019]
  • Sexually transmitted infections: implementing the global STI strategy [2017]
  • Global health sector strategy on Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2016-2021 [2016]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) [2013]
  • Laboratory diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus [2013]
  • Expert consultation and review of the latest evidence to update guidelines for the management of sexually transmitted infections [2011]
  • A strategic approach to strengthening control of reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections : use of the programme guidance tool [2009]
  • Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006–2015 [2007]
  • Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006–2015 - Key messages [2006]
  • Sexually transmitted and other reproductive tract infections. A guide to essential practice [2005]
  • Sexually transmitted infections in adolescence [2004]
  • Manual for the standardization of colposcopy for the evaluation of vaginal products. Update 2004 [2004]
  • Sustaining HIV, hepatitis and STIs services amid declining health aid
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): Fact sheet
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections - Risk factors
  • STIs guidelines
  • Men who have sex with men
  • Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme - Treatment & Care
  • Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme - Testing & diagnostics
  • Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme - Prevention
  • Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme
  • Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Strengthening the response to sexually transmitted infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: policy brief [2026]
  • Summary report on the Policy dialogue on scaling up testing for HIV, hepatitis and STIs in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt, 22-24 October 2024 [2024]
  • Regional action plan for the implementation of the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2022-2030 [2024]

WHO South-East Asia Region

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Control of sexually transmitted infections and global elimination targets, South-East Asia Region [2021]

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • The annual meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on viral hepatitis, HIV and STI (STAG-HHS) in South-East Asia Region, jointly with the National Programme Managers Consultation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13-15 June 2023 [2024]
  • Integrated Regional Action Plan for viral hepatitis, HIV and sexually transmitted infections in South-East Asia, 2022–2026 [2022]
  • Sexually transmitted infections

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Review of national treatment guidelines for sexually transmitted infections in the Western Pacific Region [2018]
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections

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