(Feb. 14, 2025) – In April 2024, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a
Practice Advisory on syphilis testing in pregnancy. Due to rapidly increasing rates of congenital syphilis, ACOG advises that obstetrician-gynecologists and other obstetric care professionals should screen all pregnant individuals serologically for syphilis at the first prenatal care visit, followed by universal rescreening during the third trimester and at birth rather than use a risk-based approach to testing. From 2012 to 2021, congenital syphilis cases in the United States increased by 755 percent. From 2017 to 2021,
CS rates rose 219 percent in the US and rose 648 percent in Kansas. The April 2024 Practice Advisory notes that ACOG continues to endorse the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment Guidelines, 2021.
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Karen Braman