Open AccessUnnamed Partners From Syphilis Partner Services Interviews, 7 Jurisdictions
Author(s) -
Anna B. Cope,
Kyle T. Bernstein,
James Matthias,
Mohammad Rahman,
Jill Diesel,
River Pugsley,
Julia A. Schillinger,
Rilene A. Chew Ng,
Darpun Sachdev,
Rebecca Shaw,
Trang Nguyen,
Ellen J. Klingler,
Victoria Mobley,
Erika Samoff,
Thomas A. Peterman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000001269
Subject(s) - syphilis , medicine , partner notification , transmission (telecommunications) , demography , family medicine , intervention (counseling) , contact tracing , sex partners , public health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychiatry , nursing , covid-19 , disease , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , electrical engineering , condom , engineering
Reducing transmission depends on the percentage of infected partners treated; if many are missed, impact on transmission will be low. Traditional partner services metrics evaluate the number of partners found and treated. We estimated the proportion of partners of syphilis patients not locatable for intervention.