An Overview of Selected Curable Sexually Transmitted Diseases

This document contains WHO estimates of the prevalence and incidence of some of the curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), based on information published in the world scientific literature and in WHO archives. The methodology used was developed by the Office of STD of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, and is the first WHO attempt to estimate STD incidence based on epidemiological modelling. As more data on STD become available, the WHO database will be updated and estimates will be refined.