About the Authors

Stephen Nurse-Findlay

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nursefindlays@who.int

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Melanie M. Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Reproductive Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Margaret Savage

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maeve B. Mello

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Sanni Saliyou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Regional Office, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Congo

Manuel Lavayen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Frederic Seghers

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael L. Campbell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Françoise Birgirimana

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Regional Office, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Congo

Leopold Ouedraogo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Regional Office, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Congo

Morkor Newman Owiredu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Intercountry Support Team for East and Southern Africa, World Health Organization, Harare, Zimbabwe

Nancy Kidula

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Intercountry Support Team for East and Southern Africa, World Health Organization, Harare, Zimbabwe

Lee Pyne-Mercier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LPM is employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a strategic goal of reducing maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirth, and has an interest in seeing increased rates of screening for and treatment of syphilis in pregnancy. MC is an employee of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and has participated in a related project on Benzathine Penicillin that was financially supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.