[The current examination protocol for prostitutes at a venereal disease counseling clinic, Vienna Public Health Service].

Registered Prostitutes are seen weekly for medical examination in the STD-Clinic of the Public Health Office Vienna. 1987 no syphilis was seen in this special riskgroup. The incidence of both gonorrhoe and chlamydial infection was. Chlamydias were found 1.6 times more, as gonococcal infections. There was no evidence of HIV infection. Screening for cervical neoplasia was started in reduced. 1988 and yielded a tenfold incidence of abnormal findings, requiring conisation often than compared to preventive checkups amoung the general female population.