For National Chlamydia Screening Programme publications see the NCSP pages (external link).

GRASP (Gonococcal Resistance to Antimcrobials Surveillance Programme) reports are available from a separate folder.

Please select the Blood-borne viruses publications for related report series including:

• Eye of the needle (occupational exposures to bloodborne viruses in healthcare workers)
• Hepatitis C in the UK (annual report)
• Safe Supplies (annual report of Blood and Tissue authority)
• Shooting up (infections among injecting drug users)

• An introductory guide to local Health Protection Agency STI and HIV data in London
  This document aims to provide local stakeholders, particularly NHS and local Health Protection Units (HPUs), with the key information they require in order to understand the STI & HIV data that is available for their area. This includes an overview of how HIV and STI data can be used and interpreted, how data is collected, the available publications, and where to go for more information.
  Added/updated: 10 January 2012
  
• Sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men in the United Kingdom: 2011 report
  It is difficult to estimate the number of adult (aged over 15 years) men who have sex with men (MSM) in the UK. Currently, the most reliable data source used to estimate numbers is the last National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL) in 2000. Report amended January 2012.
  Added/updated: 23 January 2012
  
• HIV in the United Kingdom: 2011 report
  This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first reports of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Report amended 20 January 2012.
  Added/updated: 20 January 2012
  
• Time to test for HIV: Expanded healthcare and community HIV testing in England
  This report provides the final results from eight projects, in hospital, primary care and community settings funded by the Department of Health to examine models of HIV testing in these settings. All except one were in high prevalence areas (where diagnosed HIV prevalence is greater than two per thousand among 15-59 year olds). Projects ran for periods of 3-12 months between 2009 and 2010.
  Added/updated: 20 September 2011
  
• National Chlamydia Screening Programme England
  The HPA's monitoring and evaluation framework for the NCSP
  Added/updated: 17 November 2011
  
• Time to test for HIV: Expanded healthcare and community HIV testing in England
  This report provides interim results of 8 DH-funded HIV testing pilots outside of STI and antenatal clinics. The results show that the national 2008 guidelines recommending routine offer HIV testing to new registrants in high prevalence areas are feasible, acceptable and effective in identifying previously undiagnosed persons.
  Added/updated: 30 November 2010
  
• HIV in the United Kingdom: 2010 Report
  The number of people living ith HIV in the UK reached an estimated 86,500. A quarter of these people were unaware of their infection.
  Added/updated: 26 November 2010
  
• HIV in the United Kingdom: 2009 Report
  The number of people living with HIV in the UK continues to rise, with an estimated 83,000 infected at the end of 2008, of whom over a quarter (27%) were unaware of their infection.
  Added/updated: 27 November 2009
  
• Syphilis and Lymphogranuloma Venereum: Resurgent Sexually Transmitted Infections in the UK: 2009 report
  Between 1997 and 2007, annual diagnoses of infectious syphilis have risen twelvefold (from 301 to 3789). Enhanced surveillance of syphilis was introduced in 1999 to collect timely information with which to build a detailed picture of the epidemic and guide interventions.
  Added/updated: 30 April 2010
  
• Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme
  This report focuses on activity arising from a screening programme development workshop held in October 2007 and on screening uptake and positive test results for infections based on data collected in England between 2005 and 2007 by regional HPA teams and sent to the National Antenatal Infections Screening Monitoring (NAISM) Programme for analysis.
  Added/updated: 30 April 2010
  
• Sexually transmitted infections and men who have sex with men in the UK: 2008 report
  MSM remain a priority for targeted HIV/STI prevention and health promotion work. A wide range of health promotion initiatives exist, to reinforce safe sex messages and also address the diverse needs of MSM including issues of stigma and discrimination.
  Added/updated: 30 April 2010
  
• Sexually transmitted infections in black African and black Caribbean communities in the UK: 2008 report
  Black African and black Caribbean communities in the UK are disproportionately affected by STIs. Two-fifths of all new HIV diagnoses in the UK are among black Africans, while black Caribbeans are disproportionately affected by bacterial STIs.
  Added/updated: 30 April 2010
  
• HIV in the United Kingdom: 2008 report
  Recent guidelines have re-emphasised routine HIV testing in key health services, especially GUM and antenatal services.
  Added/updated: 30 April 2010
  
• Sexually transmitted Infections and Young People in the United Kingdom: 2008 Report
  Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, remain one of the most important causes of illness due to infectious disease among young people (aged between 16 and 24 years old). If left untreated, many STIs can lead to long-term fertility problems (e.g.with Chlamydia or gonorrhoea). Infection with HIV or the strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer can lead to long-term illness and possible death.
  Added/updated: 14 August 2009
  
• Testing Times - HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United Kingdom: 2007
  This report presents detailed information from HIV and STI surveillance and prevention monitoring systems to give a synthesis of the current state of these infections in the UK and to make recommendations.
  Added/updated: 16 April 2010
  
• New Frontiers - National Chlamydia Screening Programme Annnual Report 2005/6
  The report's title, New Frontiers, reflects the movement of the NCSP this year into a new scale of operation within a new NHS environment and the new opportunities for community-based collaborative development across the health economy of England. In this third year of implementation, the Programme has confirmed that screening for chlamydia can be delivered safely and effectively in a wide variety of medical and non-medical settings and via both statutory and voluntary providers.
  Added/updated: 30 April 2010
  
• Indications of Public Health in the English Regions: Sexual Health (November 2006)
  Indications of Public Health in the English Regions: Sexual Health
  Added/updated: 14 August 2009
  
• A Complex Picture - HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United Kingdom: 2006
  ‘A Complex Picture’ profiles the increasing complexity inherent to the evaluation and management of the continuing HIV and STI epidemics.
  Added/updated: 7 April 2010
  
• Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in the United Kingdom: 2006
  Update Report of an Intercollegiate Working Party July 2006
  Added/updated: 14 August 2009
  
• Bayesian multi-parameter synthesis of HIV surveillance data in England and Wales, 2001
  The original proposal was to develop a policy model of HIV in the United Kingdom, which would incorporate a model of the epidemiology of HIV; a set of public health interventions aimed at reducing the burden of HIV; an analysis of the comparative costs and effects of the alternative interventions.
  Added/updated: 20 January 2012
  
• Mapping the Issues HIV and STI in UK 2005
  The report summarises current surveillance information on HIV and STIs, as well as some of the behaviours underlying transmission, and shows the distribution of the problem across different areas of the country.
  Added/updated: 8 December 2009
  
• Focus on Prevention - HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United Kingdom in 2003 - An update: November 2004
  This report highlights ways in which the Agency and its collaborators contribute to HIV and STI prevention - whether through the implementation of specific health interventions or in the monitoring and evaluation of screening and prevention programmes.
  Added/updated: 6 October 2009
  
• Renewing the focus HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United Kingdom in 2002 Annual Report, November 2003
  This report describes the important work being undertaken by the Health Protection Agency, the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH), the Regional Information Branch, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSS&PS Northern Ireland); National Public Health Service for Wales Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre; the Unlinked Anonymous Surveys Steering Group and collaborators in understanding the distribution and determinants of sexual ill-health in the UK today.
  Added/updated: 16 January 2012