Interventions on COVID-19 Vaccination and other infectious Diseases in the Migrant Population at the Colombian-Venezuelan Border

The results of the studies point to a high lack of knowledge about syphilis (97% among young people and 75% among mothers), gender relations marked by male behavior that increases the risk of infection (more sexual partners, greater rejection of condom use) and lack of access to the public health system.
The critical presence of unsatisfied basic needs represented an additional concrete obstacle to access treatment; the interviews revealed the low income levels and the regularity of hunger in this population. Finally, within the group of individuals diagnosed with syphilis who received conditional cash transfers, adherence to treatment reached 80%, while for the group without the monetary transfers, adherence reached 45%. In effect, the transfers almost doubled adherence, showing that they are an effective and low-cost strategy when compared to the costs of perinatal morbidity and mortality secondary to gestational syphilis.