How the state, tribes and federal government are working to curb SD's syphilis epidemic

Tyler Broghammer leaves his office nearly every day armed with a small blue cooler. Inside is a weapon against South Dakota’s syphilis epidemic: syringes of penicillin. The sexually transmitted infection case manager at Oyate Health Center in Rapid City also carries rapid STI tests and condoms on his near daily drive around town, meeting with […] The post How the state, tribes and federal government are working to curb SD’s syphilis epidemic appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.

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