Syphilis: For health professionals
On this page
- Screening and diagnosis
- Risk assessments
- Surveillance
- National case definitions
- Provincial and territorial resources for syphilis management
Screening and diagnosis
Refer to the syphilis guide for information on the screening and diagnosis of syphilis.
Syphilis guide: Key information and resources
Risk assessments
The Public Health Agency of Canada assesses risks to public health to:
- identify emerging threats
- describe, anticipate or estimate public health risks
- develop recommended actions
- explore future outcomes of risk
The assessment supports planning, responses and decision making to improve health outcomes for people living in Canada or Canadians abroad.
Risk assessments for public health professionals
Surveillance
Refer to STBBI surveillance for the latest information on surveillance resources and publications for syphilis.
Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections surveillance resources and publications
National case definitions
Access the case definitions that help support public health activities.
Provincial and territorial resources for syphilis management
The resources listed here do not supersede:
- provincial or territorial legislative, regulatory, policy and practice requirements
- any professional guidelines that govern the practice of health professionals in their respective jurisdictions, whose recommendations may differ due to the local epidemiology or context
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
Nunavut
Ontario
- Syphilis testing video (Ontario HIV Treatment Network)
- Syphilis staging video (Ontario HIV Treatment Network)
- Syphilis follow up video (Ontario HIV Treatment Network)
- Syphilis treatment video (Ontario HIV Treatment Network)
- Syphilis serology and interpretation (Public Health Ontario)
- Infectious disease protocol appendix 1: Case definitions and disease-specific information on syphilis (PDF, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care)
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
- Webinar on syphilis (French only, Institut national d'excellence en santé et services sociaux)
- Optimal use guide: Syphilis (French only, PDF, Institut national d'excellence en santé et services sociaux)
- Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (French only, Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux)
- Guide québécois de dépistage : Infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang (French only, PDF, Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux)
Saskatchewan
Yukon
Related links
Patients resources
- Sexual health services (Action Canada)
- Sexually transmitted infections: Syphilis (CATIE)
- Sexual health and harm reduction services (CATIE)
- Services and supports (Native Women's Association of Canada)
Health professional guidance
- Webinar on Syphilis in Canada: Where we are, how we got here and what we can do about it (CATIE)
- Reducing perinatal infection risk in newborns of mothers who received inadequate prenatal care (Canadian Paediatric Society)
- Courses on providing safer, more inclusive care for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (Canadian Public Health Association)