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Congenital Syphilis Incidence by Race/Ethnicity, New Jersey, 2010 to 2020
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Why Is This Important?
Syphilis may be passed to a baby by an infected mother during pregnancy and can lead to serious health problems. Syphilis has been linked to premature births, stillbirths, and neonatal death. Untreated infants that survive tend to develop problems in multiple organs, including the brain, eyes, ears, heart, liver, spleen, skin, teeth, and bones.^[https://www.cdc.gov/syphilis/about/about-congenital-syphilis.html 1]^
Definition
Rate of new cases of congenital syphilis per 100,000 live births
Data Notes
This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective STD-5. Data for White, Black, and Asian do not include Hispanics. Hispanic ethnicity includes persons of any race. Due to the extremely low number of cases (<=25 in any given year), all rates presented here are considered to be statistically unreliable. [[a href="home/ReliabilityValidity.html" More info]]Data Sources
- Communicable Disease Reporting and Surveillance System (CRDSS); Sexually Transmitted Disease Program; Division of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Services; New Jersey Department of Health
(http://www.nj.gov/health/hivstdtb/stds/) - Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/demographics/population-household-estimates/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of reported congenital syphilis casesDenominator:
Number of live births
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective STI-04
U.S. Target: Reduce congenital syphilis to 33.9 cases per 100,000 live births by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/sexually-transmitted-infections/reduce-congenital-syphilis-sti-04
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective STD-8
U.S. Target: Reduce congenital syphilis to 9.6 new cases per 100,000 live births by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/sexually-transmitted-diseases
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective STD-5
NJ Target: Reduce the reported congenital syphilis incidence rate to 6.4 per 100,000 live births for the total population, 0.0 for Asians, 29.5 for Blacks, 5.5 for Hispanics, and 2.1 for Whites by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/std.shtml