In Home STD Tests Home STD testing has finally come of age with the reliable Over the Counter STD test offered by My Lab Box. The company sends quality STD screening kits, discreetly packaged, to your home. The tests can be self-administered and take …
There is no STD test privacy. That’s because most sexually-transmitted diseases are reportable diseases in every state. It means that someone has to submit a report to the health department every time there’s a positive test for an STD. While …
In March 2015, New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, or DOHMH, closed the busiest free STD clinic in the city, without advance notification to the community and apparently without many plans to serve the 20,000 annual patients who …
When you follow the steps in our guide to anonymous STD testing, you are the only person who knows that you had an STD test and the results of the test. This means that the health department doesn’t follow up …
A startup company has developed a ring that sits on the thumb, numbs an area with vibrations, inserts a needle and takes a blood sample. The blood sample is split into four channels that simultaneously test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis. The results are sent to a smartphone in fewer than 60 seconds.
You can get an STD test from your doctor, at a public or private health clinic or online through an online laboratory.
A confidential STD test means that your test results are only shared with other people as required by law. Unfortunately, the law requires that positive test results are shared with the state health department and confidential STD test results are not anonymous.
When your STD infection is cured, you can easily become reinfected if your partner wasn’t tested and treated for the STD at the same time. The CDC has a controversial program that provides two prescriptions to STD-infected patients: one for the patient and one for his partner.
If you have a sexually-transmitted disease, there is not a single reason to wait to get tested and to get treatment. Delaying treatment makes the treatment more difficult and damage from the disease more permanent. If you wait too long, you won’t be able to have an anonymous STD test anymore.
Montgomery, Alabama had the highest STD infection rate per 100,000 people in 2013 for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, and the high infection rates are common throughout the state of Alabama.