Open AccessPublic health intervention in a cocaine-related syphilis outbreak.
Author(s) -
Jonathan R. Hibbs,
Robert A. Gunn
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.81.10.1259
Subject(s) - syphilis , medicine , outbreak , public health , incidence (geometry) , treponematosis , sexually transmitted disease , environmental health , family medicine , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , nursing , physics , optics
Cocaine users and prostitutes are at high risk for syphilis, but disease control is difficult among these populations. During a cocaine-related syphilis outbreak in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1989, we conducted a control program at sites where sex and drugs were sold.
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