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In the last year, the FDA has approved two STD tests for at-home use that allow women to get fast diagnoses for syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea—three STDs with skyrocketing rates among midlife ...
Since 2011, KFF’s Greater Than HIV and Walgreens National HIV Community Partnership has provided more than 93,000 free HIV/STD tests through the in-store NHTD program.
Walgreens, KFF’s Greater Than HIV join community partners to offer free HIV, STD testing National HIV Testing Day will be held June 27 across 550 Walgreens stores nationwide.
The push to make at-home testing for STDs as easy and commonplace as at-home COVID and pregnancy testing is coming from several sectors.
The Simple 2 test looks for genetic traces of chlamydia and gonorrhea bacteria collected from urine specimens or vaginal swabs. Image: lev.studio (Shutterstock) Americans looking to stay on top of ...
For its National HIV Testing Day event on June 27, Walgreens will provide free testing for HIV and other STDs at a record 550 stores.
The testing disruptions have led to work-arounds at many STD clinics, including initial online consultations for those with symptoms and at-home sample collection for diseases like chlamydia and ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has greenlit the first test for chlamydia and gonorrhea that will allow users to collect samples at home. After HIV, this is the first FDA-authorized test that ...
A new 30-minute point-of-care (POC) test using self-collected vaginal swabs works as well as lab-based molecular diagnostic tests for detecting chlamydia and gonorrhea, new findings show.
Since 2011, KFF’s Greater Than HIV and Walgreens National HIV Community Partnership has provided more than 93,000 free HIV/STD tests through the in-store NHTD program.
The STD epidemic is 'out of control,' one doctor says. That has prompted a push to get at-home tests as commonplace as COVID-19 and pregnancy test kits ...
Testing for diseases like chlamydia and gonorrhea plummeted in many parts of the U.S. last year as COVID-19 sapped away resources and staff. Health officials say this testing gap left them unable ...