Surveillance guidelines

The UNAIDS and WHO global working group on HIV and STI surveillance provides technical guidelines on methods for conducting HIV and STI surveillance. The current list of available surveillance guidelines are below.

Guidelines produced by the UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on HIV and STI Surveillance

• WHO/UNAIDS technical update on HIV incidence assays for surveillance and epidemic monitoring (2013)
• HIV Surveillance Among Populations Most at Risk for HIV (2010)
• Guidelines for measuring national HIV prevalence in population-based surveys (2005)
• The pre-surveillance assessment: Guidelines for planning sero-surveillance of HIV, prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and the behavioural components of second generation surveillance of HIV (2005)
• Guidelines for HIV surveillance Among Tuberculosis Patients (2004)
• Guidelines for Effective Use of Data from HIV Surveillance Systems (2004)
• Guidelines to HIV Sentinel Sero-surveys Among Pregnant Women and Other Groups (2003)
• Guidelines for Second Generation Surveillance (2000)
• Guidelines for Sexually Transmitted Infections Surveillance (1999)