Regulatory support of organization of screening for syphilis (on the example of Moscow city)

Legal documents that provide laboratory diagnosis of syphilis in the Russian Federation, have been published for more than 10 years and does not fully correspond to the current state of syphilis and its level of diagnostic methods. At the same, the existing orders and guidelines emphasizes the need based on the specific situation with the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, systematically review the “at risk” population to be screened. Treatment-and-prophylactic institutions of the Moscow Department of health done by step work on the transition to modern diagnostic tests for diagnosis of syphilis. Currently, the available equipment and trained personnel can replace the use of a complex of serological tests on the reaction of passive hemagglutination and enzyme immunoassay.

syphilis screening tests, regulation of the organization