The Global Initiative for the Elimination of Congenital Syphilis is a World Health Organization strategy launched on 4 September 2007 to eliminate congenital syphilis as a public health problem worldwide. It responds to an estimated twelve million new syphilis infections occurring globally each year despite the existence of affordable prevention tools such as condoms and cost-effective antibiotic treatment, and sets out a strategy built on two core objectives, reducing syphilis prevalence among pregnant women and preventing transmission of the infection from mothers to their infants. Directed at policymakers, multilateral organizations, donors and international health stakeholders, the strategy document was published in Arabic, Chinese, English, Portuguese and Russian and calls for coordinated short-term and long-term action at both the national and international level.
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In 2007, WHO and partners launched a global initiative to eliminate congenital syphilis based on the pillars of 1) sustained political commitment and advocacy, 2) access to and quality of maternal and newborn health services; 3) universal syphilis screening for all pregnant women and treatment of women testing positive and their partners; and 4) adequate surveillance, monitoring and evaluation
Delivers Practice: Disease Surveillance, Page text
Using a pre-existing surveillance system, we were able to identify 4 countries that have reported reaching the WHO syphilis service coverage targets for validation of elimination of vertical transmission of syphilis for both testing and treatment of maternal syphilis in 2016-2017.
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“ The WHO global surveillance case definition for congenital syphilis includes A live birth or fetal death at >20 weeks of gestation or >500 g (including stillbirth) born to a woman with positive syphilis serology and without adequate syphilis treatment.
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