TY - JOUR AU - Bremer, Viviane AU - Haar, Karin AU - Gassowski, Martyna AU - Hamouda, Osamah AU - Nielsen, Stine PY - 2016 DA - 2016/11/21 TI - STI tests and proportion of positive tests in female sex workers attending local public health departments in Germany in 2010/11 JO - BMC Public Health SP - 1175 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - In Germany, local public health departments (LPHD) are required to offer low-threshold access to confidential counselling and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI) for sex workers. We collected data from LPHD in Germany to estimate the number of performed STI tests and the proportion of positive STI tests among attending female sex workers (FSW) in order to formulate recommendations for improving STI testing and care for FSW in Germany. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3847-6 DO - 10.1186/s12889-016-3847-6 ID - Bremer2016 ER -