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  • Title: Need for syphilis screening and counselling in HIV counselling and testing centres: a curtain raiser study from north India.
    Author: Nag VL, Dash NR, Pathak A, Agarwal SK.
    Journal: Aust J Rural Health; 2009 Apr; 17(2):102-6. PubMed ID: 19335601.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Voluntary counselling and testing centres (VCTC) are important HIV screening points for the population with suspicion or apprehension for HIV, because of high-risk exposures. Theoretically, these are also at the risk of having co-infections, commonest being syphilis. The present short-term study was aimed at knowing the sero-reactivity of syphilis among a study cohort attending the VCTC in King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India. METHOD: During a 2.5-month period, 49 HIV-positive and 171 HIV-negative sera were tested for venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL). The positive sera were further tested for treponema pallidum haemagglutination (TPHA). RESULT: Eleven (22.4%) HIV-positive sera and 104 (60.8%) HIV-negative sera were VDRL-reactive (>or=1:8 dilutions). Of these, TPHA was reactive in three (27.3%) and four (3.9%), respectively. CONCLUSION: The result might suggest the need for routine screening and counselling for syphilis at VCTC. Studies from other centres on larger population are required.
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