Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases

Sexually transmitted infections

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • New Generations Free of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Chagas Disease in the Americas. 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

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

Bangladesh

• Open Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Knowledge and skills for management of sexually transmitted infections among rural medical practitioners in Bangladesh [2015]

Brazil

• 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

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

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections strategic framework 2018-2021

• Manitoba Health and Seniors Care
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections and Bloodborne Pathogens

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Stigma and sexually transmitted infections [2018]
  • Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections

• Public Health Ontario
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

Europe

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Sexually transmitted infections

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • 2018 European guideline on the organization of a consultation for sexually transmitted infections [2019]
  • 2016 European guideline on Mycoplasma genitalium infections [2016]

• 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]

Germany

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

India

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • National Guidelines on Prevention, Management and Control of Reproductive Tract Infections including Sexually Transmitted Infections [2007]

International

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

• BMJ Open
  • Systematic review of the literature on viral persistence and sexual transmission from recovered Ebola survivors: evidence and recommendations [2016]

• 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]

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

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

• PLoS ONE
  • Costing of National STI Program Implementation for the Global STI Control Strategy for the Health Sector, 2016-2021 [2017]

• UNAIDS
  • Innovate, Implement, Integrate: Virtual interventions in response to HIV, sexually transmitted infections and viral hepatitis [2022]

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]

Liberia

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Possible Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus — Liberia, 2015 [2015]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Aotearoa New Zealand Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infection Strategy 2023-2030 [2023]

• 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]

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

• 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]

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 on the Management of Sexually Acquired Reactive Arthritis, 2021 [2021]
  • BASHH position statement on the inappropriate use of multiplex testing platforms and suboptimal antibiotic treatment regimens for bacterial sexually transmitted infections [2021]
  • Mycoplasma Genitalium 2018 [2018]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): migrant health guide

• Public Health England
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): managing outbreaks
  • Sexually transmitted infections
  • 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

United States

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevalence and Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Correctional Settings: A Systematic Review [2022]
  • Recommendations for Providing Quality Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical Services, 2020 [2020]
  • Confidentiality Issues and Use of Sexually Transmitted Disease Services Among Sexually Experienced Persons Aged 15–25 Years — United States, 2013–2015 [2017]
  • Summary of CDC Consultation to Address Social Determinants of Health for Prevention of Disparities in HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis [2010]
  • Recommendations for Partner Services Programs for HIV Infection, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydial Infection [2008]
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • National STD Curriculum

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • A Position Statement on Mpox as a Sexually Transmitted Disease [2023]
  • Prevalence and Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Correctional Settings: A Systematic Review [2022]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • United States HIV & STIs

• 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]

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

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • Sexually transmitted infections: Evidence brief [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]
  • Expert consultation and review of the latest evidence to update guidelines for the management of sexually transmitted infections [2011]
  • Sexually transmitted and other reproductive tract infections. A guide to essential practice [2005]
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): Fact sheet
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme

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
  • 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
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections

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• Topic
  • Vulvitis, vaginitis
  • Syphilis
  • Sexually transmitted infections: treatment
  • Sexually transmitted infections: screening, diagnosis
  • Sexually transmitted infections: prevention
  • Sexually transmitted infections: epidemiology
  • Sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy
  • Scabies
  • Pediculosis
  • Molluscum contagiosum
  • Male genital infections
  • Infertility, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy
  • Herpes
  • Hepatitis
  • HIV/AIDS in children and adolescents
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Granuloma inguinale
  • Gonorrhea
  • Genital warts, HPV vaccine for men
  • Chlamydia infections
  • Chancroid
  • Cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Adolescent reproductive health, adolescent gynecology