Prevalence of Syphilis and Treatment Coverage
Prevalence of Syphilis and Treatment Coverage
Keywords:
syphilis, TPHA, treatment, blood donorAbstract
Syphilis is a sexual transmitted disease. After outbreak in 80 years ago, and over the past five years was increased in prevalence. The Regional Health 2 in 2014, the prevalence of syphilis case was 11.07/100,000 population. In 2018, it was found prevalence of syphilis by 11.64/100,000 population which increased 7.7%. This retrospective descriptive study aimed to evaluate prevalence and treatment coverage of syphilis infection including study information on management of syphilis in blood donors in Buddhachinaraj Phitsanulok Hospital from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018. The retrospective study analyzed from computerized data base of Buddhachinaraj Phitsanulok Hospital. The prevalence of syphilis was 31.77, 29.91, 27.67, 11.11 and 16.75 /100,000 population, respectively. Those infected were men than women during the first three years and most infected between 21-30 years old. Syphilis infected persons were treated in 2014-2018 by 13.7%, 11.9%, 15.2%, 51.0% and 33.3%, respectively. TPHA positive blood donors between 2014-2018 was 0.3% with 4.9% treated. In conclusion, the mean prevalence of syphilis in Buddhachinaraj Phitsanulok Hospital between 2014-2018 was 14.59/100,000 population and 18.5% were treated
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