WASHINGTON (AP) — After an unprecedented push to test and track COVID-19, public health workers are grappling with a worrisome side effect: a collapse in screening for sexually transmitted ...

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been resisting a push from L.A. County to ask people if they have insurance that can cover costs for STD tests.

The influential group of experts also appears ready to recommend screening for older women at risk of the diseases and provide intensive counseling to people of all ages at extra risk of STDs.

Despite increasingly high numbers of sexually transmitted disease cases, young women who are sexually active often do not talk to their clinicians about sex and STD risk, with 1 in 4 clinicians ...

It's impossible for STD (more commonly referred to as STI) testing to be completely the same for everyone because, well, different people have different private parts. But the basic components of ...

An "active" school-based screening program for sexually transmitted diseases was associated with higher rates of testing for and detection of Chlamydia and gonorrhea than a more "passive" effort ...

Many untreated STD infections carry serious health consequences, including raising the risk of developing a serious infection called pelvic inflammatory disease, HIV infection and later ...