The latest research results of the STD prevention and treatment team of the Dermatology Hospital are published in "PLoS Medicine"

Recently, the internationally renowned journal "PLoS Medicine" published a research paper online entitled "Expanding syphilis test uptake using rapid dual self-testing for syphilis and HIV among men who have sex with men in China: a multi-arm randomized controlled trial".

Syphilis is a major global epidemic, with an estimated 6 million new infections (aged 15-49) worldwide each year

In 2019, the sexual prevention team of the Dermatology Hospital of Southern Medical University, the University of North Carolina, the University of Minnesota, the Eastern Virginia Medical School, the University of London, and the Monash University research team jointly launched the "Global Syphilis Self-Examination" strategy study , for the first time in the world, clarified the feasibility, difficulties, benefits and possible harms of using syphilis self-test reagents to promote syphilis testing in men who have sex with men (research results published in "Clinical Infectious Diseases", "Infectious Diseases of Poverty", "Frontiers" in Public Health", "Chinese Epidemiology" and other internationally renowned journals)