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They had a blood sample collected for a syphilis test.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>A total of 35\u2008460 conscripts answered the questionnaire and 75.5% reported previous sexual intercourse. Overall syphilis prevalence was 0.53% (95% CI 0.45% to 0.61%). By geographical region: northern (0.85%), northeast (0.82%), midwest (0.49%), southeast (0.34%) and southern region (0.26%). The final logistic regression model showed an association among having had syphilis and being 17\u2005years old (OR 1.3; 95% CI 1.05 to 1.73), having up to 8\u2005years of schooling (OR 1.5; 95% CI 1.03 to 2.22), living in the northern\/northeast region (OR 1.2; 95% CI 1.04 to 1.36), being men who have sex with men (OR 4.5; 95% CI 2.59 to 7.81), reporting a previous history of STD (OR 2.7; 95% CI 1.03 to 6.99) and genital ulcers (OR 2.6; 95% CI 1.59 to 4.26).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions<\/jats:title>Addressing young people at the time of military enlistment may be a good time to consider new strategies for accessing and counselling this population, thus allowing the implementation of a more appropriate healthcare policy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/sextrans-2011-050066","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,10,29]],"date-time":"2011-10-29T05:09:28Z","timestamp":1319864968000},"page":"32-34","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Prevalence of and risk factors for syphilis in Brazilian armed forces conscripts: Table 1"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"88","author":[{"given":"Denis","family":"Ribeiro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Erika Fazito","family":"Rezende","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Valdir Monteiro","family":"Pinto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gerson Fernando","family":"Mendes Pereira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ang\u00e9lica Espinosa","family":"Miranda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,10,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024051319031844000_88.1.32.1","unstructured":"WHO and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS. 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