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Syphilis Elimination Effort

An Effective Practice

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
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Target Audience
Teens, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities