In 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the STI National Strategic Plan. This ground breaking document is intended to \u201cprovide a roadmap for a broad range of stakeholders\u2014including public health, health care, government, community-based organizations, educational institutions, researchers, private industry, and academia\u2014to develop, enhance and expand STI prevention and care programs at the local, state, tribal and national levels over the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Sexually Transmitted Infections National Strategic Plan<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 PDF<\/span><\/a> (STI Plan) (1.8 MB) sets a vision as well as goals, objectives, and strategies to respond to this STI epidemic nationwide. However progress on the STI Plan requires local stakeholders to work in partnership to decide which goal are most applicable to their region and apply strategies to meet those goals.<\/p>\n During the fall of 2021, TPPP was fortunate to host a practicum student from Washington University in St. Louis who gathered information on what local stakeholders think are the most important goals and objectives for the greater St. Louis region. We are proud to share the full report with the response data from a survey of local stakeholders.\u00a0 Here are just a few of the key takeaways.<\/p>\n Local Stakeholders prioritized these three national goals:<\/span><\/p>\n Local Stakeholders highlighted the following strategies as high priority:<\/span><\/p>\n Local Stakeholders ranked the STIs in order of priority. The local ranking was:<\/span><\/p>\n #1 HIV<\/span><\/p>\n #2 Syphilis<\/span><\/p>\n #3 Chlamydia\/Gonorrhea<\/span><\/p>\n Along with local testing and treatment data, these rankings can be used to create measurable goals for the region.<\/span><\/p>\n Download a one-pager with the STI National Plan<\/a> Local Stakeholder Survey Key Takeaways<\/p>\n\n
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