Webinar: Let’s talk about sex – raising awareness of STIs among adolescents and young adults in 2025

Topic outline

• General

  General

  2 April 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET

  Welcome to the 'Let’s talk about sex – raising awareness of STIs among adolescents and young adults in 2025' webinar space on the ECDC Learning Portal.

  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 raise awareness of STIs among adolescents and youth through the sharing of successful initiatives.

  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

    At the end of this webinar, participants should be able to:

    • Be able to articulate which messages about safe sex resonate with young people today.
      
      
    • Be able to indicate new channels of communication with adolescents in 2025 and in the future.
      
      
    • Have identified actions that they could consider taking to increase awareness of STIs among adolescents and young adults in their context.

  • Target audience

    The webinar is designed for EU/EEA (i) public health practitioners and health care workers at national, regional and local levels; (ii) civil society actors; and (iii) education providers.

  • 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

    - A systematic review of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis prevalence in Europe

    - 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: Opinion of the Health Security Committee on Sexually Transmitted Infections

    
    

    • Putkonen, H., et al. (2024): Sexual health interventions with social marketing approach targeting young people: a scoping review