Notifying partners of patients with early syphilis in Madagascar: case-finding effectiveness and public health implications.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the case-finding effectiveness of a clinic-based partner notification effort for early syphilis in Madagascar.

Methods

We asked index cases who had proven early syphilis to identify and provide contact information of recent sex partners (in the past 3, 6, and 12 months for primary, secondary, and early latent syphilis, respectively). Named sex partners were contacted by index cases (patient notification) or, if approved by the index case, clinic staff members (provider notification); notified of their potential exposure to syphilis; and asked to come to the clinic for evaluation. We assessed case-finding effectiveness and calculated the 'brought-to-treatment' index (number of newly-diagnosed syphilis cases per number of index cases interviewed).

Resu

SUBMITTER: Khan MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5824628 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature