STD government initiatives worldwide along with advances in healthcare infrastructure are projected to provide a basis for STD market growth.

Getting tested is the only way for a sexually active person to be sure of their STD status.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, STD rates have experienced a "steep and sustained" increase in the past few years.

Both the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the Tulsa Health Department offer STD testing and have implemented expedited partner therapy to treat patients who were diagnosed with an STD.

If you have an STD, see your doctor immediately to get the right antibiotics.

The findings from a new survey suggest that lack of direct communication between clinicians and patients, as well as false beliefs about STD risk held by both groups, may contribute to STD prevalence.

A sore on someone's lip that is made of small clusters of fluid-filled blisters is an indication of herpes, says Annabeth Elliott, the STD Programme Coordinator at the Idaho Department of Health.

Differences were identified among HIV services provided by STD programs in local and state health departments (Table 1).

April is STD Awareness Month, and Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Ore gon has been encouraging Oregonians to educate themselves about sexually transmitted diseases and to get tested.

Almost 16% of the students didn't want to know if they had an STD even though this goes against basic Islamic beliefs which state that a person's body is not entitled to him but to the Creator.

The app called MedXCom allows people to exchange STD status by bumping their phones, ABS News reported.

"When we do go to the schools to give talks it's difficult to go into details about every STD, but we inform them as much as we can and stress the importance of protection," said Georgiadou.

In the study presented at a conference on STD prevention sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr.

(2,3) Moreover, as many as one-third of symptomatic patients attending STD clinics report having delayed seeking testing and treatment for more than a week after the onset of symptoms or notification about an exposure.