• Cornelis A Rietmeijer, Patricia J Kissinger, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Charlotte A Gaydos, Edward W Hook, Aimee Mead, Sophie Yang, Amy Geller, and Sten H Vermund.
• Rietmeijer Consulting, LLC Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology New York University, New York, NY, USA and Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA Division of Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham AL, USA National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
• Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Aug 31.

AbstractDespite decades of medical, diagnostic, and public health advances related to diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections (STI), rates of reportable STIs continue to grow. A 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on the current state of STI management and prevention in the United States, entitled Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm, offers recommendations on future public health programs, policy, and research. This new report builds upon the 1997 Institute of Medicine report, The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and provides eleven recommendations organized under four action areas: 1) Adopt a sexual health paradigm; 2) Broaden ownership and accountability for responding to STIs; 3) Bolster existing systems and programs for responding to STIs; and 4) Embrace innovation and policy change to improve sexual health. We present our interpretive synopsis of this report, highlighting elements of particular interest to STI and sexual health practitioners, including clinicians, researchers, disease intervention specialists, community outreach workers and public health staff. The report asserts that it is possible to create a healthier and more equitable future where fewer adolescents and adults are infected, fewer babies are born with STIs, and people entering their sexual debut and continuing throughout the life span are taught the language and skills to conceptualize and enact their own vision for what it means to be sexually healthy.Copyright ©2021 American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association.

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