To help prevent teenage pregnancy, WHO is calling on governments to offer better alternatives to child marriage. These include improving access to education, financial services and jobs. If all girls ...

Wisconsin health officials are calling a significant spike in congenital syphilis over the last several years "especially ...

A regional collaboration called the Stop Syphilis Coalition is launching a public awareness campaign this month to educate residents and providers on risk factors, symptoms and screening ...

A recent study offers a promising sign in syphilis incidence, a preventable and curable STI that has been surging across the ...

Each day, more than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are acquired around the world, primarily among individuals ages 15 to 49, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Despite knowing how to prevent vertical transmission (from mother to the baby) of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis-B infections, ...

Syphilis is back on the rise across the United States after being nearly eliminated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the Navajo Nation, a solution to curbing the now national epidemic is ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Local health leaders are raising awareness and looking into ways to stop the rise in syphilis cases across ...

Ms. Oktariani spoke at the launch of the Regional Roadmap for the Triple Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission (EMTCT) of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B in the Asia and Pacific Region. This ...

Paraguay’s Health Ministry and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have launched a joint technical mission to ...

Health officials in Wisconsin are raising concerns about an increase in congenital syphilis cases even as overall sexually transmitted infection rates decline across the state.

The Norfolk Health Department is sounding the alarm regarding rising syphilis cases across Hampton Roads. Local health officials say cases are on the rise, especially among pregnant women ...