Testing for STDs can get you timely treatment and help your partners. The USPSTF recommends screening for STDs in persons who are at increased risk for infection, in particular, syphilis infection.

By age 15, 25% of the women had acquired an STD, most often chlamydia. The average time between first intercourse and the first STD infection was two years. Repeated infections were common.

Home testing kits have revolutionized access to STD screening. These kits allow individuals to collect samples privately at home and mail them to laboratories for testing, receiving results digitally.

Health STDs increased during COVID-19 pandemic’s first year, CDC report finds Cases of gonorrhea, syphilis rose while chlamydia cases declined, possibly due to decreased screening ...

Dr. Leandro Mena, director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, said he would like to see at-home STD testing become as routine as home pregnancy tests.

STD rates increased over the past decade with Chlamydia leading. Women have higher rates; Black Americans most affected; ...

Victoria's deputy premier says all test results for sexually transmitted diseases in the case of alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown have come back negative so far.

How testing rates have been affected Due to the pandemic, around 80% of STD testing clinics were said to have been non-functional. However, most of these clinics are up and running again.

Among 130 STD screening sites in the St. Louis region, testing is still at about two-thirds of pre-pandemic levels, according to figures compiled by Reno.

In the greater St. Louis area, only about 11 of 128 testing sites remained fully open this spring and summer, and in one health care system, testing dropped by 45 percent.