County To Offer Home STD Tests -- for women only

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-08-29 00:10

Article here. Unreal. Like only women get STDs. Want to reduce STD spread? 1. Encourage *everyone* to find out if they have any STDs and 2. Educate people on how to avoid spreading them and most importantly on how not to get them. But no. That's too simple and besides, it would seem only females get STDs! Excerpt:

'SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sacramento County’s health department will begin distributing a take-home STD test for women that won’t cost users a penny.

The city has one of the highest rates of STDs in the state, and it keeps going up every year. Now a new online program will hopefully get more people to get tested.

“We definitely need all the help we can get,” said Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye.

The division of public health says STDs are spreading like wildfire in Sacramento, with chlamydia and gonorrhea considered an epidemic.
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Men will still have to visit a doctor to be tested since the tests are only designed for women.'

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