OK, I'll tell you it's syphilis

Syphilis is almost four times more frequent in pregnant women than infection with HIV.

So if we put you in the category of you've got syphilis, we can give you penicillin.

Substantially higher rates of diagnosis of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis are recorded among indigenous peoples than non indigenous peoples.

The estimated number of HIV positive pregnant women is around 15,000, and the number of pregnant women with syphilis is about 60,000.

The population rate of diagnoses of syphilis has remained relatively stable in the period 2000 2004, at less than 10 per 100,000 population.

The SUS provides infant formula for free as a substitute for maternal milk, as well as exams and treatment for AIDS and syphilis.

Among the sexually transmitted diseases, syphilis has a low rate of morbidity with 19 registered cases of ill persons (rate of morbidity 0,82 100.000).

With this campaign the Ministry of Health expects to reduce the rate of HIV infection close to zero and eliminate congenital Syphilis by 2007.

During the present administration, a new campaign for vertical transmission prevention of syphilis and HIV, targeting pregnant women, health professionals and managers has been launched.

But the extra bonuses that she gets is various infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, you name it, substance abuse, drugs, everything under the sun.

Although the incidence of infectious and parasitic diseases declined in 2001, the incidence of syphilis and gonorrhoea remained unchanged 0.9 and 0.19 of all pregnant women respectively.

In the Netherlands the fight against HIV AIDS goes hand in hand with the efforts to combat other sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis.

Care for pregnant women includes the offer of standard screening of all women for conditions including the infectious diseases hepatitis B and syphilis, and since January 2004 also for HIV.

As Reverby put it, I d spent nearly two decades explaining that there had been no inoculation at Tuskegee, that while the PHS had used deplorable ethics, they had never infected anyone with syphilis. That was not true in Guatemala.

If it is not treated during pregnancy or if the treatment is inadequate, the syphilis could result in the death of the fetus or leave the baby with sequel, such as deafness, neurological problems or poor bone formation, among others.

A decline has been noted in tuberculosis morbidity, as well as morbidity for other infectious diseases. By comparison with 1995, diphtheria morbidity has dropped 223 fold epidemic parotitis, by 45 and measles, by 10.7 fold. Syphilis morbidity has dropped to 92.1 persons per 100,000 population from 128.5.

If you had early signs of paralysis and you were really good at asking personal questions, you might figure out that this paralysis someone has is from syphilis, in which case you could give this nice concoction of mercury and arsenic as long as you didn't overdose them and kill them.

On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity so called research carried out on concentration camp prisoners. On the other side of the Atlantic, in Guatemala, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) is deliberately infecting prisoners and mental patients with syphilis in another experiment aimed at replacing the ineffective drugs used by soldiers during the war that had just ended.