Sexually transmitted infections in Europe 1990–2009

This first surveillance report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (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 (LGV). EU Member States are expected to submit data related to all variables in the dataset, if available and relevant, as per Decision 2119/98/EC of the European Commission Enhanced surveillance of STI in Europe is essential to provide the information that is necessary to monitor the distribution of the diseases and to evaluate the public health response to control the transmission of infections. In order to achieve this aim, countries in Europe need to ensure that surveillance data is of high quality, and need to provide, in particular, complete case reports with STI surveillance data