A Lancet Commission on 70 years of women's reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in China

J Qiao, Y Wang, X Li, F Jiang, Y Zhang, J Ma, Y Song… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Women's reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health
(RMNCAH) is a cornerstone for the healthy development of the next generation and a …

Global Challenge of Antibiotic-Resistant Treponema pallidum

LV Stamm - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2010 - journals.asm.org
Syphilis is a multistage infectious disease that is usually transmitted through contact with
active lesions of a sexual partner or from an infected pregnant woman to her fetus. Despite …

Internal migration and health in China

X Hu, S Cook, MA Salazar - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
China has a highly mobile population of 140 million rural-to-urban migrants (10% of the total
population), a number that is expected to increase in the coming decade. Migrants tend to …

HIV and syphilis prevalence among men who have sex with men: a cross-sectional survey of 61 cities in China

Z Wu, J Xu, E Liu, Y Mao, Y ** of Treponema pallidum in clinical samples
W Chen, H Luo, L Zeng, Y Pan, JB Parr, Y Jiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The performance of commonly used assays for diagnosis of syphilis varies considerably
depending on stage of infection and sample type. In response to the need for improved …

Health of China's rural–urban migrants and their families: a review of literature from 2000 to 2012

J Mou, SM Griffiths, H Fong, MG Dawes - British medical bulletin, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Socioeconomic transformation in China at the beginning of the twenty-
first century has led to rapid urbanization and accelerated rural–urban migration. As a result …

Syphilis in the modern era: an update for physicians

SE Cohen, JD Klausner, J Engelman… - Infectious Disease …, 2013 - id.theclinics.com
Syphilis is caused by infection with the spirochetal bacterium Treponema subspecies
pallidum. T pallidum is a highly motile coiled organism with tapering ends and 6 to 14 …

Early antenatal care: does it make a difference to outcomes of pregnancy associated with syphilis? A systematic review and meta-analysis

SJ Hawkes, GB Gomez, N Broutet - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Objective Despite an increase in the proportion of women who access antenatal care,
mother-to-child transmission of syphilis continues to be a consequence of undiagnosed …

Syphilis and social upheaval in China

JD Tucker, XS Chen, RW Peeling - New England Journal of …, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
Syphilis was nearly eliminated from China 50 years ago but is now the most commonly
reported communicable disease in Shanghai. Dr. Joseph Tucker and colleagues write that …

China's syphilis epidemic: epidemiology, proximate determinants of spread, and control responses

JD Tucker, MS Cohen - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2011 - journals.lww.com
The Chinese central government recently announced a 10-year syphilis plan to provide
clear expectations for evaluating the success of local syphilis control programs and …