Table 1.

Formalisation and organisation of behavioural and second generation systems in countries reporting behavioural surveillance (n = 16).

	Behavioural surveillance system		Second generation system
	Formalisation in documents	Organisation	Existing	Formal	Management/coordination body and functioning
Belgium	No	Informal, mix of national and regional repeated or small scale one/off studies	No	-	-
Cyprus	HIV/AIDS strategic plan	No management/coordination body	Yes, partly	Yes	Information from BS and biological systems is analysed and interpreted informally by program officials. A recent report on period 1986-2007 has been produced
Denmark	No	Surveillance only in MSM	No
Estonia	M&E system, national AIDS strategic plan	Coordination by a government agency	Yes	Yes	Separate bodies for behavioural and biological surveillance, coordination by the National Institute for Health Development Agency with centralised production and dissemination of reports
Finland	No	Under the responsibility of a government agency	No	-	Under the responsibility of the National Public Health Institute
France	No	No centralized body: various national agencies (surveillance, research, prevention) and other institutions are involved inbehavioural surveillance.	Yes	No	Coordination by the Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS). Reports or syntheses of studies are issued periodically
Germany	No	Informal coordination between the Federal Ministry of Health, a health agency and research institutions	Yes, partly	No	Organised informally by a network of institutions
Latvia	Regulation for registration of infectious diseases	Under the responsibility of a government agency	Yes, for IDU only	Yes	Under the responsibility of the Public Health Agency
Lithuania	National AIDS programme and Resolution on STI surveillance	Under the responsibility of the Ministry of Health (MOH)	Yes, partly	Yes	Management by the MOH
Netherlands	No	No centralised body: cooperation between the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and the HIV/STIs Agency	Yes, partly	Yes	Cooperation within a network of institutions; reports are issued regularly
Poland	National programs on AIDS and on addictions	No centralized coordination, collaboration between agencies	Yes partly	Yes	Information comes from different sources, and is sometimes, but not routinely, used to interpret the epidemiological situation. Reports are published on the government site
Slovenia	Institute of Public Health internal protocols	Under the responsibility of the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia	Yes	Yes	Institute of Public Health is responsible for the analysis, interpretation and dissemination of SGS information to many audiences (MOH, media, professionals, population)
Spain	HIV multisectoral plan	Under the responsibility of the Secretariat of the National Plan on AIDS, Ministry of Health	Yes	Yes	The Secretariat of the National Plan on AIDS collects and publishes available information
Sweden	No	Under the responsibility of a government agency of the National Board for Health and Welfare	Yes, for general population	-	Collaboration within a network of institutions; summary reports are produced by the National Board of Health and Welfare for the government, and then sent to all health authorities in the country
Switzerland	National AIDS program, protocols	Under the responsibility of the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and financed by the Federal Office of Public Health	Yes	Yes	Coordination is assumed by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). All information pertaining to SGS is presented and discussed in a special working group-including FOPH, non-governmental organisations, partners from biological and behavioural surveillance. Reports are issued periodically
UK	Scientific article	No centralized body. Data produced by a network of agencies.	Yes, partly	Yes	No central coordination and dissemination of data; this is left to individual institutions and/or research groups to synthesise and publish

Mapping of HIV/STI behavioural surveillance in Europe, 2008.