Abstract
What is the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Era on Pregnant Women Sero-Positivity for Syphilis Among Women Attending Antenatal Care in India and Number of Babies Diagnosed with Congenital Syphilis?
Highlights
Transmitted infections (STIs) still continue to be a major public health problem globally, affecting the quality of life as well as causing serious morbidity and mortality
Among 254705.2 averages per month number of PW tested using point of care (POC) test for Syphilis, 2144.4 averages per month were sero positive for Syphilis giving a sero-prevalence of 0.84% in 2021(Jan to May)
Of 53313.66 averages per month number of PW tested using POC test for Syphilis, 419.33 averages per month were sero positive for Syphilis giving a sero-prevalence of 0.79% in 2019 (Jan to Dec)
Summary
Transmitted infections (STIs) still continue to be a major public health problem globally, affecting the quality of life as well as causing serious morbidity and mortality. STIs have a direct and significant impact on reproductive and child health. They can directly cause infertility, cancers as well as pregnancy complications, and indirectly affects individual economies. Syphilis is a STI caused by bacterial infection of Treponema pallidum. It is usually transmitted during sexual contact with infectious lesions present on the mucous membranes or abraded epidermis, via blood transfusion, or vertical-transplacentally during pregnancy to the foetus. Planning and provision of antenatal health care during pandemic like COVID-19 pose significant logistical and clinical challenges. Period from January 2020 onwards is counted as pandemic era which is still going on and period before January 2020 i.e. up to December 2019 is calculated as pre-pandemic era for this research study
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