Monitoring of the responses to sexually transmitted infection epidemics in EU/EEA countries, 2024
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has developed a system to support countries in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) in monitoring responses to their sexually-transmitted infection (STI) epidemics. The newly developed monitoring system is centred around the key elements of national responses and aligned with targets of the Global Health Sector Strategy (GHSS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) European Regional Action Plan.
Key findings
In this report, we provide an overview of the data reported by EU/EEA countries in 2024, describing the state of play for STI prevention and control in the region. This includes measurement of progress towards the 2025 interim targets for ending the epidemics of STIs as major public health concerns, as outlined in the WHO European Regional Action Plan 2022–2030.
In 2024, 29/30 EU/EEA countries responded to the first ever ECDC online STI monitoring questionnaire related to four main thematic areas: enabling environment, prevention, testing and treatment. This report presents some key indicators from the STI monitoring data submitted by the EU/EEA countries and, where relevant, is supplemented with available information and data for STI indicators from existing data sources (e.g. Dublin Declaration monitoring for HIV in Europe and Central Asia, ECDC’s mapping of sexual behavioural surveys, the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP) and the European Men-who-have-sex-with-men and trans people Internet Survey (EMIS-2024)).
