(from the April 2020 ACP Internist)
Progress made in combating HIV has caused people to feel a greater sense of security around sex and less worry about bacterial sexually transmitted infections.
By Mollie Frost
In the world of infectious diseases, making progress against one pathogen sometimes means losing ground on another.
In 1990, the U.S. had its highest syphilis rate in 40 years, while HIV/AIDS incidence was entering its peak. Then, after the first protease inhibitor was approved in 1995, people living with HIV finally had a chance of survival. On the heels of that progress, the number of syphilis cases declined by 86% in 1998 to about 7,000 total cases, according to the CDC.
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