Report on global sexually transmitted infection surveillance 2018

Overview

Globally, more than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur each day. According to WHO global estimates for 2016, there were roughly 376 million new infections of the four curable STIs – chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and trichomoniasis. 
STI prevention and control have widespread public health benefits and contribute to progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to ending preventable deaths of children under 5 years, combating communicable disease, and providing universal access to sexual and reproductive health care. 
This report summarizes the latest country-reported data from Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) and the Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility Programme (GASP) as well as regional- and country-level estimates generated using tools developed with support from WHO for modelling STI epidemics: Spectrum-STI and the WHO congenital syphilis estimation tool.