These technical guidelines provide information on STD surveillance in a number of different country settings. They discuss STD case reporting, prevalence assessment and monitoring and assessment of syndromic aetiologies, as well as other aspects of surveillance.
1. Introduction -- 2. STI surveillance components -- 3. Case reporting -- 4. Prevalance assessment and monitoring -- 5. Assessment of STI syndrome etiologies -- 6. Monitoring antimicrobial resistance -- 7. Special studies as a component of STI surveillance -- 8. Basis and advanced STI surveillance and the classification of HIV/AIDS epidemics -- 9. Disseminating, communicating and utilising STI surveillance data -- 10. Evaluatrion of STI surveillance systems -- Annex 1. Summary reporting formats -- Annex 2. Sample size tables.
