Scaling up syphilis testing in China: implementation beyond the clinic

China is experiencing a syphilis epidemic of enormous proportions. The regions most heavily affected by syphilis correspond to regions where sexually transmitted HIV infection is also a major public health threat. Many high-risk patients in China fail to receive routine syphilis screening. This miss...

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Main Authors: Joseph D Tucker, Sarah J Hawkes, Yue-Pin Yin, Rosanna W Peeling, Myron S Cohen, Xiang-Sheng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2010-06-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000600014&lng=en&tlng=en