Syphilis Response: Best Practices in Indian Country | December 5, 2023
Date of Presentation: December 5, 2023
Type: Past Presentation Training
Audience: Clinical
Keywords: #infectious disease #sexual health #sti #syphilis
In this presentation, Dr. Amy DeLong, MD, MPH, highlight best practices for responding to the rise of syphilis in Indigenous communities. Amy and Jessica provide an overview of syphilis (including the natural history of untreated syphilis, primary/secondary/latent/tertiary and congenital syphilis, as well as the neurologic manifestations of syphilis), the current epidemiology, rapid/point-of-care tests available, testing algorithms including non-treponemal and treponemal approaches, as well as testing options for I/T/U clinics to implement (via standing orders, express STI testing services, in-home specimens collection, and expanded screening). They then review the management and treatment of syphilis & congenital syphilis, Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction, post-treatment follow-up and field based screening and treatment strategies, allergies, DoxyPEP, how our EHRs can be leveraged to improve screening, case management approaches, and discusses how we can communicate with and provide incentives to our communities to best respond to the rise in syphilis in Indian Country.
Recording:
Presented by:
Amy Delong
Amy Delong, (Ho-Chunk Nation) MD, MPH , is a family health and adolescent health specialist at the Ho-Chunk Nation House of Wellness Clinic in Baraboo, Wisconsin
Resources Provided:
- Dual Rapid HIV-Syphilis Test (McKesson)
- I Want the Kit (STI/HIV Home test kit)
- Rapid Syphilis Test (McKesson)
- Syphilis and Drug User Health Webinar Series (NASTAD)
- Syphilis Resource Hub
- Syphilis Screening Using the Reverse Algorithm (CDC)
- Syphilis Response: Best Practices (Presentation Slides)
- Toolkit for Express STI Testing (Toolkit)
- Syphilis Field Based Treatment (Policy/Protocol)
- Field Based Treatment - Treatment of Anaphylaxis (Protocol)
- Rapid Syphilis Testing and Immediate Treatment for High-Risk Patients (Policy)
Date added: August 10, 2023