The Gay Barometer, a survey of gay men who frequent gay meeting places, was launched in Paris in 2000 at the initiative of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance and the...

Between July 1999 and December 2003, the clinical management of individuals exposed to HIV was the subject of a national evaluation, coordinated by the French Institute for Public...

The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) aims to establish a sentinel network of private laboratory practitioners to continuously monitor antibiotic susceptibility in...

In France, an analysis of asthma mortality trends between 1970 and 1990 showed an increase through the mid-1980s, followed by a decline. Among women, however, age-standardized death...

Invasive meningococcal infections (IMIs) are serious infections that most often affect young people who appear to be in good health. In France, the majority of cases occur...

In August 2003, several cases of leptospirosis were reported to the Departmental Directorates of Health and Social Affairs, the Interregional Epidemiology Units, and the French...

This article describes the surveillance system for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) in France and presents the data analyzed in 2002 and 2003.

Thanks to high vaccination coverage and very high vaccine efficacy, pertussis primarily affects infants too young to receive the vaccine, as well as adolescents and adults whose...

To supplement the monitoring of antibiotic resistance in France, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) established in 2000 a network of 69 private outpatient...