State statutory and regulatory language regarding prenatal syphilis screenings in the United States, 2018

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of STD Prevention.
• Description:
  The number of reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) has increased every year since 2012 in the United States. From 2012 to 2017, the CS rate increased 177% from 8.4 to 23.3 cases per 100,000 live births.1 CS prevention relies on screening and treatment of pregnant women found to have syphilis. Many states’ laws require syphilis testing of pregnant women. Thus, state policies regarding prenatal syphilis screening may be one way to address rising CS rates through increased screening.
  
  This document includes the text of state laws requiring screening of pregnant women for syphilis in the United States, as of December 2018. These results are based upon a 2018 peer reviewed article published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal that analyzes these laws as of 2016; details of the methods used in performing the legal analysis underlying these results can be found in that article.2 This document expands upon that article through an updated legal assessment as of 2018. It also includes the text of the laws underlying the analysis in order to facilitate a better understanding of these policies.
  
  prenatal-syphilis-screening-laws-web-document-cleared-05-13-2020.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Female Humans Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & Control Legislation As Topic Mass Screening/methods Practice Guidelines As Topic Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications, Infectious Pregnancy Trimester, Third Prenatal Care Prenatal Diagnosis Syphilis, Congenital/prevention & Control Syphilis/diagnosis Syphilis/prevention & Control Syphilis Serodiagnosis

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• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  96 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4c828971083e726fc9963edb0294b3f4a2e9bc9b7945fa4ed1f8b097f44a30bd
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113228/cdc_113228_DS1.pdf
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