German STI Society - Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health

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The German STI Society - Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health is an open, medical specialist society that deals with the treatment , diagnosis , prevention and education of sexually transmitted infections and diseases (STI / STD) . The society was founded in 1902 by the dermatologists Alfred Blaschko , Edmund Lesser , Albert Neisser , Eugen Galewsky and Alfred Wolff under the title German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases (DGBG) . The constituent assembly took place on October 19th in the Berlin City Hall. The company is organized as a non-profit association. The members come from various specialist areas that are related to questions of sexual health ( dermatology , venereology , urology , gynecology , epidemiology , psychology , education and the public health service ).

history

The story behind the model: Neisser and Blaschko found the DGBG

"To create a center for all efforts that can lead to a restriction of venereal diseases" - this is the self-formulated goal of the professional society in the founding appeal of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases (DGBG), from which the DSTIG later emerged. The Breslau venereologist Albert Neisser , who discovered the pathogen causing gonorrhea in 1879, was named the first chairman of the DGBG. Another prominent and extremely committed member of society was Alfred Blaschko . He was appointed Secretary General in 1902 and took over the chairmanship of the DGBG from 1916. With the announcements of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases , the society had its own periodical.

Up to 10,000 members

The society was initially organized in local groups and branch associations, ten years after its foundation it already had 5,000 and after the First World War even 10,000 members. The chairman Blaschko had managed to unite not only the educated middle class milieu in the DGBG, but also people from different social classes, from all political camps. Within the professional society, the arguments about strategies for combating sexually transmitted diseases should be conducted, and values ​​and morals should be discussed. The representation of different views was wanted and not an exclusion criterion. The topicality and explosiveness of the topic of venereal diseases benefited the rapid and broad acceptance of the young specialist society.

Decline in the Third Reich

The Second World War brought the DGBG to a temporary decline. In 1933, the entire board resigned, as under the National Socialists the society was subordinated to the Reich Committee for Public Health and no longer had its own political voice. In 1955 the DGBG was re-established, but it was not until the beginning of the 1980s, with the emergence of HIV / AIDS , that society managed to regain a wider public - beyond the professional world - and gain political influence. A new statute, which included the enlargement of the board from 5 to 15 people as well as the renaming of the German STD Society - German-speaking Society for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases , was adopted at the general meeting in October 1994.

The DSTIG - yesterday and today

Detlef Petzoldt headed the company from 1986 to 1998 and is still an honorary member today. His successor Gerd Gross took over the office of chairman from 1998 to 2010. At the general meeting in September 2010, Norbert Brockmeyer was elected as the new president of the DSTDG. The change of name of the society to German STI Society - Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health (DSTIG) was accepted by the general meeting in September 2011 .

President of the Society

On the Road to Sexual Health

In addition to STI ( Sexually Transmitted Infection ), diagnostics and treatment, sexual health plays an increasingly important role within the DSTIG. Sexual health is still not a publicly discussed topic in Germany. Depending on the target group or objective, different institutions in Germany deal with the topic of sexual health: Public health institutions (ÖGD) , non-governmental organizations (NGO) and various medical and psychosocial disciplines. These extremely heterogeneous and diversified German structures are only partially compatible with those at the international and supranational level. In addition, there is a great need for networking, training and public relations in Germany. The DSTIG has set itself the task of achieving an improvement here.

Sexual Health Section

The Sexual Health Section in Germany was founded in 2007 as a working group of the German STI Society (DSTIG). The approximately 60 participants in the working group belong to various professional groups such as medicine, epidemiology, social sciences and prevention and work in various areas of the German health system. Interdisciplinarity is a central basis of the way the section works.

Activities of the Sexual Health Section

The members of the Sexual Health Section meet at regular intervals at various locations in Germany in order to review existing regional, national and international standards and to adapt them to the German situation. Smaller sub-groups work on the topics of indicators, counseling and care standards and prevention, the results of which are then coordinated across the group. The work is carried out in equal interdisciplinary cooperation. The results of the work should contribute to an improvement in sexual health on a scientific, political and practical level.

German STI congresses

The DSTIG organizes German STI congresses at regular intervals. Not only DSTIG members are invited to these STI congresses, but everyone who is interested in the areas of STD / STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment, aspects of sexual health and epidemiological or social science topics.

The STI Congress is aimed at people from various professional groups: medicine (e.g. urology , gynecology , venereology , infectiology , dermatology ), psychology, epidemiology, social sciences and public health. The congress offer always includes a practical part. In workshops, the participants can learn practical skills (e.g. STI diagnostics, communication techniques in doctor-patient discussions, proctology, etc.). The speakers are national and international experts from all areas of the health system. In addition to the lectures, panel discussions and workshops, there is always a poster exhibition with a poster walk.

The awarding of the Detlef Petzoldt Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of STD / STI research is an integral part of the STI Congress.

Cooperation partner of the DSTIG

literature

  • Norbert H. Brockmeyer: Portrait of the German STD Society: An interdisciplinary specialist society . In: Uro News 6/2010, 2.
  • Lutz Sauerteig: The German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases (DGBG), 1902–2002 . In: Akt Dermatol 2002; 28: 393-397.
  • L. Sourdough: Illness, Sexuality, Society. Venereal diseases and health policy in Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989), pp. 89–125.
  • HJ Vogt: The German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases (DGBG / GBGK): the era from 1945–1984 . In: Der Hautarzt 2003, 54: 886-893.
  • Detlef Petzoldt: From the "German Society to Combat Venereal Diseases" to the "German STD Society" 1985–1996 . In: The dermatologist 2004, 55: 322-324.

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