Webinar: Building successful partnerships with civil society and clinical services for STI prevention among MSM at high risk of STIs

Topic outline

• General

  General

  26 March 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET

  Welcome to the  "Building successful partnerships with civil society and clinical services for STI prevention among MSM at high risk of STIs" webinar space on EVA.
  

  The overall aim of this webinar organised by ECDC, European Clinical AIDS Society (EACS) and the Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity, and Infections (CHIP) is to strengthen country capacity to prevent and control gonorrhoea, syphilis, and chlamydia among MSM at high risk for STIs through the sharing of successful initiatives between public health authorities, clinicians and civil society actors

  If you have any questions regarding the webinar, please contact the Coordination team at countrysupport.rigshospitalet@regionh.dk. If you have any technical issues, please contact courses@ecdc.europa.eu.

  • Registration

    To participate in this webinar, please use this Zoom registration link. You will then be sent a calendar invite with more information on how to join the webinar.

  • Objectives

    After completing this webinar, participants should be able to:

    • Be able to articulate the importance of partnerships between public health, civil society, and clinical services in preventing STIs and improving sexual health among MSM at high risk for STIs
    • Have identified actions that they could consider taking to establish/strengthen regular cooperation with civil society actors and clinicians in their context/settings

  • Target audience

    The webinar is designed for Public health practitioners and healthcare providers at national, regional and local levels.

  • Agenda

    The webinar will be hosted online using Zoom with a duration of 90 minutes. The format will include expert presentations and open discussion/Q&A. 

    Please find the full agenda, as well as the scope and purpose of this STI webinar series here.
    

  • Background material

    We have selected relevant documents related to the webinar content as background material. These materials provide support to the planned webinar presentations and discussions.

    • ECDC:

    - Annual Epidemiological Reports on STIs
    - (2024): A systematic review and metaanalysis of the prevalence of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis in Europe 
    - (2021): Technologies, strategies and approaches for testing populations at risk of sexually transmitted infections in the EU/EEA 
    - Video: Don’t give gonorrhoea a ride!

    - Video: Bacterial sexually transmitted infections – why do we see the rise?

    - Video: How big of a threat are the bacterial sexually transmitted infections

    
    

    • European Commission (2025): Opinion of the Health Security Committee on Sexually Transmitted Infections

    
    

    • Mårdh & Plachouras (Eurosurveillance, 2023): Using doxycycline for prophylaxis of bacterial sexually transmitted infections: considerations for the European Union and European Economic Area

    
    

    • European AIDS Treatment Group (2025): DoxyPEP Info note