An electron micrograph of Treponema pallidum on cultures of cotton-tail rabbit epithelium cells (Sf1Ep). Treponema pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis. In the United States, over 35,600 cases of syphilis were reported by health officials in 1999.
The 1969 Bremen Conference on Venereal Disease made great progress in combating the viruses.
It lead to a major drive to created a vaccine and new, more effective, treatments for it.
This also lead to the the promise by the major drug companies to give reduced price medication to Central America, South America, Nepal, Bhutan, South East Asia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the minor Pacific Islander nation like Tuvalu and all of non-islamic Africa as of 1997!