| need for syphilis screening and counselling in hiv counselling and testing centres: a curtain raiser study from north india. | voluntary counselling and testing centres (vctc) are important hiv screening points for the population with suspicion or apprehension for hiv, because of high-risk exposures. theoretically, these are also at the risk of having co-infections, commonest being syphilis. the present short-term study was aimed at knowing the sero-reactivity of syphilis among a study cohort attending the vctc in king george's medical university, lucknow, india. | 2009 | 19335601 |