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 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.