The Evidence That Increased Syphilis Testing Controls Syphilis Is Compelling: What Is Needed to Act?

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Prevalence of curable STIs and bacterial vaginosis during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sexually transmitted infections · 2022
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2. Prevalence of selected curable sexually transmitted infections and predetermining factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Gebretsadik Shawo General Hospital, Bonga, Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2025
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3. Incidence and Risk Factors for Early Syphilis Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Australia, 2013-2019: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023
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4. Impact of aetiological screening of sexually transmitted infections during pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes in South Africa.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022
   Observational
5. Strategies to Increase Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing Among Men to Reach UNAIDS 90-90-90 Targets.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018
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6. An Update on the Global Epidemiology of Syphilis.Current epidemiology reports · 2018
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7. Prevalence of syphilis among people living with HIV who attend a large urban antiretroviral therapy clinic in Panama: a cross-sectional epidemiological study.Therapeutic advances in infectious disease
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  Increased Syphilis Testing of Men Who Have Sex With Men: Greater Detection of Asymptomatic Early Syphilis and Relative Reduction in Secondary Syphilis.2017

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