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Article: Syphilis elimination seen as good HIV prevention: lowest-ever rate gives chance to stamp out disease.
- Article from:
- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Lowest-ever rate gives chance to stamp out disease
The syphilis epidemic of the late 1980s that fueled the HIV epidemic has subsided to the lowest levels of syphilis ever recorded, prompting health officials to set in motion a plan for eliminating the chronic disease within the next ten years. The effort not only has congressional backing and financial support, but is planned to enhance prevention for other infectious disease control efforts, particularly HIV.
Although the United States has the highest rates of syphilis in the industrialized world, the epidemic is concentrated in fewer than 40 counties, primarily in the South. Last year, the nationwide ...