Talk:Syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa

A fact from Syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a lack of screening for pregnant women with syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with increased infant mortality?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:10, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that lack of screening for pregnant women with syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with increased infant mortality? Source: "Substantial infant mortality and morbidity results from maternal syphilis infection concentrated in countries with low access to ANC or low rates of syphilis screening." — Estimating the public health burden associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes resulting from syphilis infection across 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
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- Comment: This is my penultimate free DYK.

Created by An anonymous username, not my real name (talk). Self-nominated at 15:38, 6 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Well-written, well-sourced article. Good to go. I did consider whether the hook wasa too dry. I think it's just about ok but if the nominator wanted to have another look at it and express it in a hookier way, I would support that (e.g. replace "mortality" with "death"). By the way, the nominator says it's his penultimate free nom without QPQ - by my count it's their last as it will be their 5th nom. DeCausa (talk) 13:34, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DeCausa, sure, replacing "mortality" with "death" is fine. I admit it's a little weak still, but I wanted to avoid making any generalisations, as the article itself covers a very large region, which most of the sources only focus on specific locations within. As for the other thing you mentioned, I'm a little confused; this should only be my fourth nom. An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 21:33, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]