UCSD Increasing Trends in Congenital Syphilis Discussion Questions
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Papers to read:
Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. Ità100% Preventable. roPublicaLinks to an external site.
Congenital syphilis Cooper SanchezLinks to an external site.
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Substance Use Among Persons with Syphilis During Pregnancy rizona and Georgia, 2018°21 | MMWR (cdc.gov) Links to an external site.Links to an external site.
QUESTION #1: How is drug use associated with increased risk for acquiring syphilis and/or likely contributing to increasing syphilis incidence in communities and posing challenges to syphilis prevention and control efforts?
QUESTION #2: Links to an external site.Congenital Syphilis (CS) is increasing in the United States. In their abstract, Copper and Sanchez state that very case of congenital syphilis must be seen as a failure of our public health system to provide optimal prenatal care to pregnant women, as congenital syphilis can be prevented by early and repeated prenatal serologic screening of mothers and penicillin treatment of infected women, their sexual partners, and their newborn infants. aroline Chenàarticle outlines some of the ways our public health infrastructure may be failing to prevent syphilis. List some of the ways that increasing trends in congenital syphilis highlight weaknesses in the US health system.
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