The Chinese government give more attention to pregnant women by providing free examinations for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B. If the positively infected by the disease, the mother will get care for her baby from getting infected later.
No half-hearted, the local health ministry has budgeted at least 700 yuan, or about Rp 936 billion (exchange rate of Rp 1338/CNY) per year. Digelontorkan that much money to ensure that new babies are born does not catch the disease from his mother.
"This step is a new policy intended primarily to prevent disease transmission from pregnant mother to her baby," said Wang Ning of the Center for Prevention of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China as quoted by Medindia on Tuesday (08/03/2011).
Wang estimates that this policy will be able to control the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, especially syphilis which recently increased their cases in China. If running optimally, free checking is once again expected to reduce rates of transmission of syphilis.
In addition, China's health ministry also requires that clinics and hospitals to provide services for pregnant women who develop one or more of the three diseases. The services provided are prevention for the disease is not contagious.
The pregnant mothers are also advised to prioritize inspection Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis and hepatitis B in the early days of pregnancy. The more quickly detected, to-child transmission of the disease can be prevented with appropriate treatment.
Syphilis also called lion king is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. Although sometimes do not cause symptoms for many years, the disease is easily transmitted unwittingly by an infected through contact of body fluids.
As ever written detikHealth syphilis transmission from pregnant mother to the fetus at risk of causing a baby is born dead. Even if born with a survivor, other risks are born in the deaf and suffered nerve damage or bone defects.
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