STD testing
Student Health Services offers STD awareness, testing in April
11:03 a.m., March 23, 2012--By age 25, one of two sexually active individuals in America will have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, or STD.
Nationally, nearly half of all new cases of STDs occur in the 15-24 age group.
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Because April is National STD Awareness Month, University of Delaware Student Health Services is offering free STD testing in conjunction with the national Get Yourself Tested campaign.
Get Yourself Tested is sponsored by MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others to inform young people about STDs, encourage and normalize testing for STDs and connect young people to testing centers.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young people account for nearly 25 percent of the sexually experienced population in the United States, and for nearly half of new STDs.
STDs include chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital human papillomavirus, general herpes, syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.
“This is the second year we have done this,” said Dr. Joseph Seibold, director of Student Health Services. “We think getting the message out to students is a worthwhile thing.”
How 'Get Yourself Tested' works at UD
Free sexually transmitted disease testing is being offered at UD in conjunction with the Get Yourself Tested Program. The program includes a video.
To make an appointment, students can click on this link on the Student Health Services website and then log in and follow the instructions listed on the page.
Testing appointments for female patients begin on Monday, April 2. Testing appointments for male patients begin on Tuesday, April 10.
More information
The Get Yourself Tested campaign features an STD awareness resource site and Twitter.
Article by Jerry Rhodes