Nine Decades of Positive Experience with Venereal Prevention, Follow-up and Epidemiological Tracing in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic
Abstract
After the Czechoslovak Republic was established in 1918, the original laws on the regulation of venereological diseases (reglementation law) were replaced with abolition directives in 1922. The founding of the Czech Dermatological Society helped to lay out the principal trends in the treatment and prevention of venereological diseases, especially syphilis.
An epidemiological contact (source)-tracing service interlinking all of the country´s dermatologists was gradually constituted, which functioned with clockwork precision. This service included the prevention, follow-up, tracing of contacts and sources of the disease.
The basic prevention network in the Czech Republic has been preserved. As compared to other European states, the statistical data amassed to date corroborate our conviction that the work of venereologists is well worthwhile.