The European Network for STI Surveillance aims to improve collaboration, build capacity and facilitate robust dissemination of information on sexually transmitted infections (STI) to inform public health policy and planning across Europe. Diseases under surveillance at the EU level include: chlamydia infection, lymphogranuloma venereum, gonorrhoea, syphilis and congenital syphilis.
For 2011, the major activities within the STI surveillance network are the following:
- Enhanced STI data collection for 2010 from EU/EEA countries
- Annual report for STI Surveillance 1990-2009
- Annual report for the European gonococcal antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance, 2009
- Gonococcal strain collection for 2010/2011 for antimicrobial susceptibility testing
- Report on laboratory capability survey for STI diagnostics in EU/EEA countries
- Laboratory training covering basic diagnostic methods, susceptibility testing and molecular typing for STIs (May 2011) in London, United Kingdom
- Annual meeting for the European Network for STI Surveillance
The team at ECDC can be contacted at stihiv@ecdc.europa.eu