It may be time to consider whether America's Safe Sex campaign is working. Despite two decades of public awareness campaigns about safe sex and condoms, venereal disease is on the rise in San Diego an ...

Fifteen months ago, Solidad Odunuga received a phone call from the Houston Health Department. Odunuga’s daughter, who had been living on and off the streets, had given birth to a baby boy named ...

A rise in reported cases of syphilis in Merced County is drawing the attention of health officials who aim to curtail the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through education and increased ...

On Thursday the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, backed by Gov. Jared Polis, issued a public health order to address what has been deemed an epidemic. State data shows that ...

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Brazil is cutting funding for sex education as the country experiences a sharp increase in incidences of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The balance of the country's political power has moved ...

Arizona is in the midst of a syphilis oubreak among women and newborns that caused the deaths of 10 babies last year, state data shows. Deaths from congenital syphilis — syphilis passed from a mother ...

Share on Pinterest A new report from the CDC shows that syphilis cases spiked in 2022 while the number of cases of other sexually transmitted infections were flat or decreased. Anchiy/Getty Images A ...

The Ministry of Health plans to free the mainland of congenital syphilis in 10 years. The disease was eliminated 50 years ago but has made a ferocious comeback over the past two decades, with ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. Syphilis is curable and antibiotics can resolve it in the early stages. Without treatment, however, it can lead to disability, neurological ...

Syphilis, which the bacterium Treponema pallidum causes, is a form of sexually transmitted infection. There are four stages of syphilis. The infection can be serious or cause severe complications ...