The International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research (ISSTDR)

The International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research exists to promote research on sexually transmitted diseases and facilitate the timely exchange of information among research investigators. To these ends, ISSTDR sponsors a biennial, interdisciplinary scientific meeting, at venues that historically have alternated between Europe and North America. During the three decades since the Society was founded, the ISSTDR meetings have been the premier scientific conferences that address the entire breadth of research on STD, including HIV infections and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and encompassing microbiology, virology, immunobiology, pathogenesis, and other basic sciences; clinical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology, and prevention; and research in health services, public health, and prevention policy.

ISSTDR was founded in 1977 and is governed by an international Board of Directors who currently represent 7 countries. The ISSTDR Conference Support Foundation provides support in respect of the conferences of the ISSTDR.

Aims
The Foundation's aims to:
• provide support in respect of conferences of the ISSTDR.
• offer financial support to the local organisers of the ISSTDR conferences.
• administer the financial resources and funds in relation to this object and any related activities, and
• perform any acts that may be either directly or indirectly related or conducive to same, in the broadest sense.