WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI)

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This website of the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS provides world-wide figures, articles and reports related to HIV/AIDS and STI. There is also information about HIV/AIDS Care and Antiretrovirals.

There are links to the WHO's report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic Updates and publications on HIV/AIDS and STI (1991-1998). Users can also access HIV/AIDS information, best practices collection, and publications by UNAIDs through this website.

This website also provide links to other STI key materials:

  • Sexually Trasmitted Infactions, Formely Genitourinary MedicineThis journal publishes regularly peer review papers on Sexual Health, STI and HIV. Its supplement of June 1998 (Vol. 74, Suppl 1) covers recent research in syndromic approach to STI management.
  • The Lancet - Supplement on Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Here are the articles included in this supplement issue:
    • Global epidemiology of STD
    • STD enhance HIV transmission: no longer a hypothesis
    • The epidemiology of global antibiotic resistance among Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Haemophilus ducrey
    • Update on sexually transmitted mycoplasmas
    • Genital herpes - how much of a public-health problem?
    • Is elimination of endemic syphilis transmission a realistic goal for the USA?
    • Is vaccination against human papillomavirus a possibility?
    • Programmes to reduce pelvic inflammatory disease - the Swedish experience
    • Advances in control of STD in developing countries