The author summarizes the development which occurred after the profound transformation of our health services from entirely state owned to predominantly private services. Despite this, from the aspect of the state and many of our foremost specialista efforts esere made to preserve many positive developmental trends of venereology in this country. The latter developed since the beginnings of Czechoslovakia. These trends comprised abolition laws, systematic screening, dispensarization, epidemiological surveys, accurate statistice, mutual interrelations of departments concerned with education of workers, radical solution of the incidence of syphilis after the war by the PN (venereal diseases project) etc. It was necessary to accommodate to the netyly developed position associated with the incidence of HIV/AIDS, the different funding of the health services, extensive changes of legislativy, its scatter and delay of a uniform solution. Last but not least, it is also the higher incidence of prostitution and the problem of refugees from other countries of the world. The authors emphasize the necessity to restore comprehensive and systematic education of all workers. They indicate also a certain idea how to resolve the problem of venereology in the Czech Republic and its integration in other organizational strnctures.

        Key words: HIV/AII)S - incidence in the Czech Republic - prostitution