Analysis of the NSW STI Strategy 2016-2020 for Public Health

This report summarizes the NSW STI Strategy 2016-2020, which outlines priorities for preventing, testing, treating, and managing STIs in New South Wales. The strategy focuses on gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, and HPV, with a particular emphasis on priority populations including Aboriginal people, gay and homosexually active men, young people, and sex workers. The report identifies key priorities, such as preventing STIs and ensuring confidentiality during testing. The implementation plan involves clinical and community settings, with steps for prevention, testing, treatment, and monitoring. The evaluation of the strategy includes the use of various monitoring tools. The report also evaluates the strengths of the plan, such as the involvement of multiple communities and partnerships, while also pointing out gaps like unclear roles for partners and limitations such as limited evidence for chlamydia control policies.

REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH

NSWSTIStrategy2016-2020
Identifying priorities
Main priorities
● Preventing gonorrhea and infections of syphilis and other sexually transmitted
diseases.
● Testing the prevalence of STDs by maintaining confidentiality and beliefs of target
population.
● Diagnosing, treating and management of these diseases by providing proper care
facilities.
Basis of prioritizing
Based on the rate of onset of STIs, priorities have been set.
Reproductive and sexual health issues
Gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and Human Papillomavirus have been included in this article.
Rate of onset of these STIs has been included and evaluated.
Other priority population
Apart from aborigines, other priority population includes gay and homosexuals, sex workers
and young people.
Message about human rights
Confidentiality concerns have been mentioned during testing.
Implement
Plan for implementation
The plan is set to be implemented in both clinical and health and community settings.
Following steps will be followed to succeed
● Preventing
● Testing
● Treatment and management
Monitoring implementation and measuring success
Different monitoring tools will be used like NSW notifiable condition information
management system, Health stats NSW, NSW data collection systems and others.
Evaluate
Strength
● Other communities are also involved in this plan that has increased the operational
area.

● Partnership between the NSW government and health practitioners and researchers
can help to improve the effectiveness of this plan.
Gap
Roles of each partner like government, health practitioner are not clearly mentioned.
Limitations
Evidence is limited regarding control policy of Chlamydia.