This first surveillance report from ECDC on sexually transmitted infections (STI) covers the years 1990 to 2009. It aims to describe basic trends and epidemiological features of the five STI under EU surveillance: syphilis, congenital syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and lymphogranuloma venereum.

This ECDC surveillance report on sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Europe covers 20 years of surveillance data collection and analyses the basic trends and epidemiological features of the five STI under EU surveillance: syphilis, congenital syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV).

In 2014, 69 congenital syphilis cases were reported in 23 EU/EEA Member States, an overall rate of 2.3 cases per 100 000 live births.

In 2014, 24 541 syphilis cases were reported in 29 EU/EEA Member States (data were not available from Austria and Liechtenstein), an overall rate of 5.1 per 100 000 population. Reported syphilis rates were six times higher in men than in women.

This report gives an overview of the current status of STI and HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) in EU/EEA countries. It reviews HIV and STI prevention interventions targeted at MSM, and the evaluations of those interventions.

​This report on sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Europe covers 20 years of surveillance data, with a special focus on 2011.

In 2015, 28 701 syphilis cases were reported in 29 EU/EEA Member States (data were not available from Austria and Liechtenstein), at a rate of 6.0 per 100 000 population.

In 2015, 42 congenital syphilis cases were reported in 25 EU/EEA Member States, at a crude rate of1.1 cases per 100 000 live births.

This report presents the main findings of an ECDC project to assess the burden of infectious diseases among migrants in the EU/EEA based on available data for specific diseases: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis B, hepatitis C, gonorrhoea, syphilis, measles and rubella, malaria and Chagas disease.