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STD leaders this week called on the Biden administration to declare a public health emergency over congenital syphilis and dedicate $1 billion to addressing sexually transmitted infections in the United States.

Cases of congenital syphilis increased more than 10-fold between 2012 and 2022, the CDC reported Tuesday in another warning about the worsening epidemic of sexually transmitted infections in the United States.

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BOSTON — A single dose of benzathine penicillin G is effective against early syphilis regardless of HIV status, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

BOSTON — The Infectious Diseases Society of America is focused on growing the ID workforce and increasing opportunities for its members, its new president told Healio at IDWeek.

BOSTON — In this video, Jodie A. Dionne, MD, MSPH, associate professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, recaps her IDWeek presentation on vaccines and sexually transmitted infections.

BOSTON — In this video from IDWeek, Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, discusses the CDC’s pending recommendations for prescribing doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections.

IDWeek relaxed its COVID-19 policies this year, no longer requiring that attendees wear a mask or provide proof of vaccination.

Infant hospitalization for congenital syphilis increased 10-fold from 2016 to 2022 in Mississippi, from 10 cases per year to 110 cases per year, according to an analysis of hospital discharge data.

Adding doxycycline to single-dose benzathine penicillin G — the preferred treatment for early syphilis — achieved higher serologic responses in people with HIV than benzathine penicillin G, researchers found.