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Syphilis Elimination Effort

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Description

The Syphilis Elimination Effort (SEE) uses five strategies to achieve syphilis elimination: enhanced surveillance, strengthened community involvement and organizational partnerships, rapid outbreak response, expanded clinical and laboratory services, and enhanced health promotion. The Plan aims to reduce infectious syphilis cases to 1,000 or fewer per year and to increase the percentage of syphilis-free counties to 90% by 2005

Goal / Mission

The goal of this program is to reduce syphilis prevalence in the United States and eliminate the syphilis health disparity.

Results / Accomplishments

Outcomes of this project include reductions in congenital syphilis and infectious syphilis in African Americans. The program has also resulted in reductions in infectious syphilis in women. SEE has improved partnerships for syphilis elimination and public health infrastructure and developed a Rapid Response Team that can be deployed for other communicable disease outbreaks.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for HIV/STD/TB Prevention (NCHSTP) Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE)
Primary Contact
Jo A. Valentine, MSW
1600 Clifton Rd., N.E., MS E-02
Atlanta, GA 30333
(404) 639-8366
jxv2@cdc.gov
http://cdc.gov/std/
Topics
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Organization(s)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for HIV/STD/TB Prevention (NCHSTP) Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE)
Source
American Public Health Association (APHA)
Date of publication
2004
Location
USA
For more details
http://www.cdc.gov/StopSyphilis/
Target Audience
Teens, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

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  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success and/or promise in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures of improvement in outcome of interest (i.e. increase in voter registration, not just delivery of voter registration drive) and/ or the outcome measure is increased or improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant.
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