Coordinated Action on Sexually Transmitted Infections (CA53)

This coordinated action was launched in 2022 to work on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to improve prevention and diagnostic and therapeutic care.

Last updated on 28 October 2024

In brief

This Coordinated Action has identified several areas of work relating to public health problems, better prevention, diagnostic strategies and therapeutic management:

  • Drug-based prevention, including antibiotic resistance and its impact on the microbiota, and vaccine-based prevention of STIs
  • Screening for STIs, particularly asymptomatic STIs in target populations
  • Treatment of STIs, taking antibiotic resistance into account
  • Basic research into STIs

Activities

Missions:

  • Provide cross-cutting scientific facilitation
  • Strengthen collaboration and networks between basic and clinical research, between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries, as well as collaborations between Cordinated Actions
  • Increase the international visibility of STI research supported by ANRS MIE
  • Help projects to mature, with the aim of submitting them to ANRS MIE Calls for Proposals
  • Attract and support young researchers in the organisation and running of the Coordinated Action

Scientific leadership: organisation of cross-disciplinary workshops

Coordinated Action 44 ‘HIV Clinical Research’ andCoordinated Action 53 ‘Sexually Transmitted Infections ’ organised three workshops on 5 and 6 June 2024. The ‘Sexually Transmitted Infections’ workshop brought together the entire scientific community interested in viral and bacterial STIs, and addressed a range of topics from pathophysiology to clinical, epidemiological and human and social sciences.

You can watch all the presentations on the dedicated workshop playlist.

Chair and Co-Chair


Cécile Bébéar
Bacteriology laboratory, National Reference Centre for Sexually Transmitted Infections, CHU Bordeaux


Jade Ghosn
Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, AP-HP Nord, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris

Chair and Co-Chair

Jean-Luc Brun (Bordeaux University Hospital)
David Boutolleau (la Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris)
Karen Champenois (Inserm)
Charlotte Charpentier (Bichat-Claude-Bernard Hospital, Paris)
Isabelle Etienne (Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon Hospital Group, Paris)

Sébastien Fouéré (Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris)
Elisabeth Menu (CEA, Saclay)
Jean-Luc Pretet (Regional University Hospital of Besançon)
Agathe Subtil (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
Laure Surgers (Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris)

Members

ANRS MIE coordination

Chloé Duquesnay (Administrative coordinator for scientific bodies)
Michèle Génin (Project manager)

Tounes Saïdi (Project manager)
Eric Rosenthal (Scientific advisor)