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STD Awareness Month Blog Series: Syphilis among Women and Newborn Babies

Posted on April 19, 2017

Blog: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)

April is STD Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is Syphilis Strikes Back. This week’s post highlights the impact of syphilis on women and newborns, and strategies of local health departments to address syphilis among these populations. As noted in the previous blog post, syphilis is a bacterial infection that is primarily spread through sexual contact, […]

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