IUSTI Regions: Europe

The officers of IUSTI-Europe. From left to right: Dr Claudia Heller-Vitouch (secretary), Dr Keith Radcliffe (regional director), Dr Airi Poder (chair) and Dr Simon Barton (treasurer).

European Guidelines and Patient information Leaflets

An introduction to the IUSTI Europe STI guidelines is available on this site. These peer-reviewed, regularly-revised STI guidelines and patient information leaflets may be accessed directly here. Information on guidelines in progress is given in the regional directors report, below.

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Regional Report June 2010

by Keith Radcliffe (IUSTI-Europe Regional Director).

The 2010 IUSTI Europe conference will take place between 23-25 September 2010 in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The congress theme is "Broadening your horizons". Full information is available at the conference website . The co-presidents of the congress are Drs Georgi Galdava and Josephe Kobakhidze from Georgia, and the chair of the international scientific committee is Dr Simon Barton (London, UK). A field visit was made in May by Simon Barton, accompanied by our chair, Dr Airi Poder (Tartu, Estonia), and Prof Mihael Skerlev (Croatian national representative and deputy-chair of the international scientific committee), who report that everything is proceeding according to plan. I am pleased to report that a meeting of the IUSTI world executive committee, chaired by president King K Holmes, will be held in Tbilisi immediately after the congress.

Work is also under way in arranging the 2011 conference which will take place in Riga, Latvia, between 8-10 September 2011, and will be hosted by Prof Andris Rubins. The chair of the international scientific committee for that meeting is Dr Willem van der Meijden from Rotterdam in the Netherlands (for further information see: http://mail.btgroup.lv/btg/iusti.nsf).

I should like to congratulate Andris Rubins on the recent publication of his textbook, "Dermatology 2010".

Following on from the decision to hold the 2012 IUSTI Europe congress in Antalya, Turkey, a successful site visit was conducted in May by Airi Poder, Mihael Skerlev (chair of the international scientific committee) and Dr Derek Freedman (Irish national representative and deputy-chair of the scientific committee).

The Estonian branch of IUSTI Europe held its successful 12th conference in Tartu, the university town of Estonia, between 10 and 12 June 2010, in conjunction with the 9th congress of the Baltic Association of Dermatovenereology. Many congratulations are due to Dr Airi Poder and Prof Andris Rubins (and their teams) respectively, for putting on such excellent meetings.

I should also like to welcome Dr Imtyaz Ahmed-Jushuf, from Nottingham, as the new UK representative on the council of IUSTI Europe. Immy Ahmed is the immediate past-president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

Work on updating European STI guidelines  and producing patient information leaflets (PILs) continues.

Recently revised guidelines on chlamydia, hepatitis, lymphogranuloma venereum, donovanosis, pediculosis pubis and scabies are available on the European guidelines webpage.

Revision of the guidelines on genital herpes and chlamydia is nearing completion, and it is hoped that these guidelines will be finalised and published soon.

The following draft guideline is currently out for consultation, and can be accessed on the guidelines webpage:

  • Chancroid – Comments should be sent to the editorial board lead for this document, Dr .

Work is also underway on revising the guideline on genital warts.

A Patient Information Leaflet on gonorrhoea has been published on the website. Dr Karen Babayan from Armenia is leading on producing a Russian translation of this.

Draft Patient Information Leaflets on chlamydia, LGV, pubic lice and scabies are also on the website for consultation. Comments please to: by August 31st 2010.

As always, I should be interested to receive any comments, questions, or suggestions about the European branch or the European guidelines.

Keith Radcliffe

IUSTI-Europe Regional Director

Editor-in-Chief, European STI Guidelines Project.



 

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