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Bookmark or Share- WHO guideline on syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant womenThis 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 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)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 cm and 2 cm in diameter ...
- Global Sexually Transmitted Infections ProgrammeThe 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 ...
- Mother-to-child transmission of syphilis - World Health Organization (WHO)The burden of morbidity and mortality due to congenital syphilis is high. In 2016, WHO estimated 661 000 total congenital syphilis cases globally, including: 143 000 early fetal deaths and stillbirths; 61 000 neonatal deaths; 41 000 preterm or low-birth weight births; 109 000 infants with a clinical diagnosis of congenital syphilis.
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