This is also seen by the progressive decrease in the number of pregnant women who did not have prenatal care, 23% in 2007 and 11% in 2017. Unfortunately, even a mean percentage of 30% of congenital syphilis was diagnosed only during delivery and/or curettage. Despite the increase in the number of cases of congenital syphilis, lethality fell sharply from 2009, always below 3%.
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