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The Sexually Transmitted Infections(STI) group is part of the School of Medicine of the National University of Colombia. The STICR counts with several international collaborators who want to develop the best systematic reviews of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and genital tract infections. The STI group has been re-registered in March 2012. We thank the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group and the Cochrane Monitoring and Registration Committee for their support during the approval process.

In October 2011, at the Madrid Cochrane Colloquium, a re-registration meeting was held and a new submission made to The Cochrane Collaboration for re-registration initially as a Satellite Group of the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group, Auckland, New Zealand. At the time, it was proposed that the title of the group be changed from Sexually Transmitted Diseases Cochrane Group (STD) to Sexually Transmitted Infections Cochrane Group (STICR).

The Group initially began in 1997 under the editorship of Dr George Schmid at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States. It then moved to the Cochrane HIV/AIDs Group. From 2006, it was hosted in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 2006, as a Satellite of the Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group (2006-2008), but closed in 2009 due to insufficient funding. From 2009 to 2011 when no STD Group was registered, the Group's reviews and protocols (either published or in the editorial process), and registered titles were re-distributed among the Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group, Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group and the Cochrane Editorial Unit. 

In July 2022, the Gynaecology and Fertility Satellite based at Amsterdam UMC assumed editorial duties of the STI group. The satellite is led by co-ordinating editor Madelon van Wely with managing editor Elena Kostova.