The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have significantly increased across the globe. Gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia infections are increasing to levels not seen in the last fifty years and this resurgence is concurrent with increasing antimicrobial resistance and a dearth of viable candidates in the vaccine pipeline. Worldwide more than one million STIs are acquired daily. A seminal 2021 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm, confirms that incident STI infections rank among the most pressing and intractable public health threats. Rising rates of STIs exact a substantial societal, medical, and economic burden that strain public health capacity—all worsened in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. This special issue of Frontiers of Public Health he aim of the collection is to bring together the latest high-quality articles from researchers working in Sexually Transmitted Infections.
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