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| Sacramento County To Offer Home STD Tests For Chlamydia, Gonorrhea |
| 2013-08-28 |
| [SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] 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. "Many people who have STDs do not have symptoms. So they would not know otherwise, unless they do the testing," said Kasirye. STD tests can be costly and uncomfortable for some. So now the county is offering in-home tests for women, which are paid for by the state. "More like a swab in the private area and then they put it in the tube. The tube is then sealed and mailed off to the lab," said Kasirye. You can sign up online and a few days later you'll receive a kit in the mail. It won't cost a thing. "Free, anonymous, at home, yeah sounds good," said one Sacramento woman. "I can imagine a lot of women signing up for that." After about a week later, results are posted online where only users can see them with a confidential code. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 With all the whores in the state legislature this is no surprise. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-08-28 11:42 |
| #6 Right in the well known Omaha Beach. |
| Posted by: JFM 2013-08-28 11:20 |
| #5 And they claim that this will be totally anonymous, privacy guaranteed, and you can get the results on line with a secret code. And I also have some great ocean veiw property just outside Omaha in case your interested. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-08-28 08:53 |
| #4 Moral self control costs nothing. As someone else would post - where's the graft in that? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-08-28 08:04 |
#3 Next they will issue a home surgery kit called "Suture Self".
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| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2013-08-28 07:11 |
| #2 If it's taxpayer funded, and a taxpayer uses it, how is that it doesn't cost them a penny? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2013-08-28 05:30 |
| #1 Sounds like this program is another subsidy to more equal women. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-08-28 05:12 |