NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Geography Global Coverage type Global Time period covered 01/1990 - present Data type Modeled data Summary Average remission of test-positive (seropositive) syphilis is based on expert-driven assumptions from WHO 2005 and GBD 2000 on the percent of individuals that show symptoms, the proportion that receive treatment if symptomatic, and the disease duration if untreated/treated, which is then interpolated by location-year using HAQi. Keywords Syphilis Citation Contributors Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Suggested citation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). IHME GBD Remission of Seropositive Syphilis. GHDx Entry last modified on: Nov 6, 2018