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© 1991 Oxford University Press

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Rising Trend of Reported Primary Genital Syphilis and Genital Ulcer Disease in Burkina Faso

ALAIN E DAMIBA*, KAREN F KELLEY**,{ddagger} and STEN H VERMUND**,{dagger},§,

*Yalgado Ouedraogo Hospital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Division of Epidemiology, Columbia University, School of Public Health, New York, USA. Present address: Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University School of Public Health, based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
**Departments of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York, USA.
{dagger} Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York, USA.
{ddagger}Present address: AIDS Epidemiology Program. Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, New York State Department of Health Albany, New York, USA
§Present address: Epidemiology Branch. Division of AIDS. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Reprint requests to: Dr S H Vermund, Division of AIDS, NIAID/NIH, 6003 Executive Blvd, Rm. 240P, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Damiba AE (BTC1 169 Boulevard 13 janvier, BP3068, Lome, Togo), Kelley KF and Vermund SH. Rising trend of reported primary genital syphilis and genital ulcer disease in Burkina Faso. International Journal of Epidemiology 1991; 20: 490–494.

Recent trends in reported primary genital syphilis and genital ulcer disease (GUD) were assessed in Burkina Faso using incidence data reported to the Ministry of Health. From 1978 to 1983 the yearly reports of genital syphilis and GUD rose by 42%. A single period moving average was calculated for each consecutive 13-week period from 1978 to 1983, documenting an average 7% rise per year. Severe limitations in the Ministry of Health of personnel and other resources for surveillance were noted and no improvements in surveillance methods were evident during this study. The rising trend suggests a growing problem of ulcerative sexually transmitted diseases, which may, in turn, facilitate infection with sexually acquired human immunodeficiency virus, coincident with the expansion of this epidemic in Africa. Syphilis complications are also almost certain to include adverse pregnancy outcome due to maternal syphilis. The rising trend in genital syphilis and GUD, and the probable increase in associated adverse sequellae, require that prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases should be made a high priority.

Revised 1 November 1990


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