The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is urging people to make safer and more informed decisions about sex.
A urine sample collection tube for chlamydia PCR testing which is commonly used in the laboratory to screen patients for chlamydia infection.The Alabama Department of Public Health is urging people to make safer and more informed decisions about sex as the rate of sexually transmitted diseases continues to climb.The site compiled the ranking using data from 2023 provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the most recent year available.
The CDC recommends annual testing for all sexually active women under the age of 25 or those older with multiple sex partners, and that sexually active gay and bisexual men get tested every year. They recommend getting tested regularly for syphilis if you are sexually active and are a gay or bisexual man, have HIV, are taking pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention, have partner who have tested positive for syphilis, have certain risk factors for syphilis, like livingshould receive syphilis testing at their first prenatal visit.
For the first time in several years, rates of major sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. have been falling.
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