This section provides extensive resources for professionals involved in the design and delivery of STD prevention services. It includes information for professionals operating in both the public and private sector.

STD Testing and Treatment

CDC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment
Guidelines
http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/default.htm
Evidence-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the treatment of STDs. Guidelines are intended to assist health care professionals in their efforts to prevent and treat sexually transmitted infections. Guidelines emphasize treatment, prevention strategies and diagnostic recommendations.

Summary, Treatment Guidelines: Wall Charts and Pocket Guides are now available and can be ordered on-line. Up to 5 of each item can be ordered free of charge.
https://www2.cdc.gov/nchstp_od/piweb/stdorderform.asp

CDC Screening Tests To Detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections Guidelines 2002
http://www.cdc.gov/STD/LabGuidelines/default.htm
Evidence-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to assist laboratorians, clinicians, and managers to choose among the multiple available tests, establish standard operating procedures for collecting and processing specimens, interpret test results for laboratory reporting, and counsel and treat patients.

National Chlamydia Laboratory Committee
http://www.aphl.org/programs/infectious_diseases/std/Pages/default.aspx
The National Chlamydia Laboratory Committee (NCLC) was created in 1995 by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This site includes recommendations regarding chlamydia screening tests and their applications.

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Program Operations

CDC Program Operations Guidelines
http://www.cdc.gov/std/program
Evidence-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for STD prevention program operations are based on the essential functions detailed in the Comprehensive STD Prevention Systems (CSPS) program announcement. The target audience for these guidelines is public health personnel and other persons involved in managing STD prevention programs. The purpose of these guidelines is to further STD Prevention by providing a resource to assist in the design, implementation, and evaluation of STD prevention and control programs.

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Chlamydia Screening Efforts in the Private Sector

US Preventive Services Task Force Chlamydia Screening Guidelines
http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspschlm.htm
This site contains recommendations from The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for clinicians screening women for chlamydia. It provides clinical considerations for discussion of risk factors, as well as rationales for each of its recommendations concerning approriate screening measures--including the recommendation to routineley screen all sexually active women aged 25 years and younger for chlamydial infection.

Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Chlamydia Screening Measure
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/HEDIS.htm
This site, developed by CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, provides guidance to Health Care Providers' for implementing the HEDIS 2000 Chlamydia trachomatis Screening Measure. This HEDIS indicator measures the proportion of sexually active females between the ages of 15 and 25 who were screened for chlamydial infection annually.

National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
http://www.ncqa.org/
NCQA is a not-for-profit organization that works to assess and report on the quality of the nation's managed care plans through an accreditation and performance measurement program. This site provides information about managed care performance as it relates to chlamydia screening efforts in managed care settings.

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Gonorrhea Screening and Control

Control of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection in the United States,
Report of an External Consultants' Meeting Convened by the Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV,STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), October 10-11, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/std/GCmtgreport.pdf
Discusses challenges and new directions for gonorrhea control efforts in the United States. It covers topics related to surveillance and screening, partner services, health care access and utilization, quality of care and effective treatment, and sexual behavior change and other interventions for high-risk networks.

Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP)
http://www.cdc.gov/std/gisp
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD's site for information on the GISP sentinel surveillance system including protocols, research acitivites, participating laboratories, sentinel sites, data elements and the latest information about anti-microbial resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

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