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Main objectives:
- To improve knowledge on health status, access to healthcare and rights for prostitutes.
- To identify constraints that impede actual access to rights and healthcare.
- To provide medical treatment to prostitutes within a free and anonymous setting: medical consultation, STI screening (including HIV and hepatitis B), screening for hepatitis C, treatment for acute STIs, provision of vaccinations (particularly against hepatitis B).
- To reveal the health status of prostitutes against perceived health data.
- To know the prevalence of STIs (HIV, HBV, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis) and hepatitis C within the study sample.
Secondary objectives:
- To improve the integration of health issues in social facilities and to train social workers regarding these issues when working with prostitutes.
- To increase medical staff's awareness of specific traits regarding this population.
- To develop local networks between key social and social medicine or medical players and to promote partnerships.

Surveillance of infectious diseases through regular automated transfer of biological results from specialist biology laboratories to InVS.

To improve the surveillance of certain infectious diseases already monitored by another system:
o To supplement surveillance data from other sources and to estimate completeness (particularly MDO).

• To implement a sustainable monitoring system for unmonitored diseases as well as:
o Monitoring spatial and temporal trends of targeted pathogens;
o Providing individual data;
o Contributing to epidemic investigations;
o Identifying active movement areas.

Monitoring:
1/ Description of lead poisoning screening activities for children;
2/ Identification of lead poisoning cases and description of the characteristics;
3/ Description of medical and environmental management of children with lead poisoning.

To describe, on a given day, the main characteristics (institution type, department type, age, gender, area and risk factors) of patients hospitalised in France; the prevalence and characteristics (infectious sites, microorganisms, antibiotic resistance) of potential nosocomial infections, the prevalence and characteristics (molecules, broad indicative categories) of possible anti-infection treatments received by patients.