Syphilis - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年5月21日 · Syphilis is a preventable and curable bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI). If untreated, it can cause serious health issues. Many people with syphilis do not have symptoms or do not notice them. Syphilis is transmitted during oral, vaginal and anal sex, in pregnancy and through blood transfusion.
Syphilis -- Global - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年10月10日 · Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. The signs and symptoms of syphilis vary depending in which of the four stages it presents (primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary). The primary stage classically presents with a single chancre (a firm, painless, non-itchy skin ulceration usually between 1 …
Data on syphilis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Maternal syphilis, when untreated, treated late or not treated with penicillin, results in adverse birth outcomes (ABOs) estimated in 50−80% of cases, depending on the stage of syphilis. These ABOs are often severe and include stillbirth (most commonly), neonatal death, prematurity, low birth weight, and congenitally infected infants.<o:p></o:p>
WHO guideline on syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant …
2017年1月1日 · This guideline provides updated recommendations for syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant women based on the most recent evidence and available serologic tests for syphilis. Download Web Annex D: Evidence tables and evidence-to-decision frameworks
Syphilis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Syphilis is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by Treponema pallidum which results in substantial morbidity and mortality, and it is curable. Syphilis is transmitted through sexual contact with the infectious lesions, via blood transfusion or from a pregnant woman to her fetus. Mother-to-child transmission of syphilis, or congenital syphilis, is usually devastating to …
Global Sexually Transmitted Infections Programme
The Syphilis Interventions Towards Elimination (SITE) model was developed to allow national HIV/STI programs to explore different scenarios to support decisions for the implementation and scale-up of interventions that could lead to the elimination of syphilis as a public health problem by 2030. The tool also provides the cost-per-infection ...
Self-testing implementation toolkit for HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis
This toolkit provides practical guidance, tools, and resources to support countries to implement self-testing for HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It emphasizes principles of self-testing for HIV, hepatitis C virus and syphilis, based on current WHO recommendations for the three disease areas.
Eliminating congenital syphilis: using evidence-based …
2024年12月20日 · As in many parts of the world, syphilis is a major public health challenge in the Region: in 2021 there were 1654 congenital syphilis cases for every 100 000 live births. This is 33 times higher than the WHO target of 50 cases per 100 000 live births to reach the elimination of vertical transmission, also known as mother-to-child-transmission ...
Episode #130 - Syphilis: Protect yourself and others
This can take a long time. Then you go into the tertiary syphilis, where it affects your brain and your nerves and also your heart. Remember that with syphilis, it’s the greatest sneaky, imposter disease. It can mimic any infection but also remember that syphilis can be asymptomatic. So it’s so important to get tested to know if you have ...
Congenital syphilis reported rate - World Health Organization …
Untreated syphilis infection in pregnancy also increases the risk of vertical transmission of HIV. Given the high efficacy, appropriate simplicity and low cost of syphilis testing and treatment, global and regional initiatives to eliminate the vertical transmission of syphilis are well established.