Bibliographic Info
GuidelineGuidelines for the management of asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections
Year of Publication2025
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Low
WHO suggests that sex workers accessing health-care services who have no symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection be screened for N. gonorrhoeae and/or C. trachomatis. Recommendations for the management of symptomatic sexually transmitted infections should continue to be followed
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This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Originally Developed
Guideline
Prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections for sex workers in low- and middle-income countries : policy brief, December 2012
Year2012
InstitutionWHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS , Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
Guideline
Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach
Year2021
InstitutionWHO