As syphilis invades rural America, a fraying health safety net is failing to stop it.
— which can result in a pattern of risky sex or trading sex for drugs — worsens the outbreaks.
Iowa, too, has seen its STD funding cut by $82,000 over the past decade, according to Iowa Department of Health’s STD program manager George Walton. Karolyn Schrage, executive director of the Choices Medical Services clinic in Joplin, Missouri says she can barely keep the antibiotic treatment for syphilis, penicillin G benzathine, stocked on her shelves.In the digital age, fighting syphilis is much harder for public health responders, said Rebekah Horowitz, a senior program analyst on HIV, STDs and viral hepatitis at the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
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