By Meaghan Lee Callaghan
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is continuing to recommend early, universal syphilis screening during pregnancy.
The new guidance, a restatement of its 2018 guideline, comes at a time when syphilis cases remain high in the United States. That also includes congenital syphilis, which caused 279 stillbirths or neonatal/infant deaths in 2023—the highest number in 30 years.
“The USPSTF found no new substantial evidence that could change