Successful Scale-up of Syphilis Testing Linked to Routine HIV Viral Load Monitoring in British Columbia
Kyle A Thompson, Matthew Clifford-Rashotte, Wendy Zhang, Diana Kao, Jason Trigg, Junine Toy, Silvia Guillemi, Viviane Lima, Rolando Barrios, Julio Montaner, Mark Hull · 2026
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Kyle Thompson and co-authors describe how British Columbia scaled up syphilis testing for people living with HIV. Their 2026 report follows screening between 2015 and 2019, years when syphilis rates were climbing yet testing often lagged behind need. The province linked syphilis checks to the routine blood draws that already track the HIV virus level, so no extra visit was needed.
Testing rose sharply across the period, and most of the rise rode on that routine monitoring link. Frequent testers were more often men who have sex with men, Vancouver residents, and people in HIV-focused care. The authors present the pairing as a simple model other systems can copy.
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| CREATOR | Kyle A Thompson, Matthew Clifford-Rashotte, Wendy Zhang, Diana Kao, Jason Trigg, Junine Toy, Silvia Guillemi, Viviane Lima, Rolando Barrios, Julio Montaner, Mark Hull |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |