Congenital syphilis occurs when a pregnant woman with the sexually-transmitted disease passes the infection to her baby in the womb. Cases are on the rise here in Arizona, and there’s a national push for more testing.
David C. Harvey is the executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. He’s in Phoenix for a national conference, and he’s talking about a letter he wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“Our concern is that in Secretary Kennedy’s recent MAHA report on the status of children’s health in the United States, what was not covered was a mention of congenital syphilis,” Harvey said…