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.
- Be able to articulate which messages about safe sex resonate with young people today.
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:
- Video: Don’t give gonorrhoea a ride!
- 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