Screening of Syphilis in Abroad Job Seeking Healthy Males

This study was carried out to find out the prevalence of syphilis is healthy male populations. Testfor Syphilis is mandatory for those who apply for overseas employment, especially in Middle Eastcountries. From randomly selected Nepalese male population (16-50 years) seeking jobs abroad, 2585blood samples were collected and tested by nontreponemal test, the Rapid Plasma Reagin test andby treponemal test, the Treponema pallidum haemagglutination test. Confirmed cases of syphilis were22 (0.85%). No association of syphilis with any age groups (X2 = 6.6465, P>0.05) and developmentregions were observed (X2 = 1.8782, P>0.05). Syphilis occurrence was almost equal in terai (0.94%)and hilly region (0.9%) and was none in mountainous region showing no association (X2 = 1.5334,P>0.05). In eastern development region, all the cases were from terai region showing significantlygreater occurrence of syphilis in terai region (X2 = 4.334, P 0.05). Asymptomatic stage of syphilis may lead to tertiarysyphilis; hence, People should be educated about the disease; they should be screened and treatedwhen required.Key Words: asymptomatic, latent stage, rapid plasma reagin, syphilis, screening