Overview
WHO’s Division for HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
has consolidated all present normative steering on STIs right into a single
publication. Structured round 10 chapters that comply with the STI prevention
and care cascade, the handbook covers main prevention, syndromic
administration and asymptomatic case identification, diagnostics, therapy,
companion administration, surveillance, service supply, and integration
inside main well being care, community-based clinics, or different platforms
(HIV, sexual well being, antenatal clinics, and so forth).
Developed
in response to WHO’s rigorous guideline growth requirements, the
handbook attracts on the most recent WHO suggestions throughout a number of
guideline modules printed between 2016 and 2025. Primarily geared toward
nationwide STI programme managers and policy-makers, it additionally serves health-care suppliers, laboratory professionals, and technical organizations concerned in STIs prevention
and management. Seven annexes present ready-to-use instruments together with
syndromic administration flowcharts, diagnostic summaries, therapy
suggestions, companion companies steering, and STIs indicators for monitoring and analysis.
