STDs Stories
- At-home STD testing kits test you from the safety and privacy of your own home, and here are 7 of the best at-home STD testing kits.
- STD cases in California have increased by 45 percent compared to five years ago while chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis reach highest numbers since the 1980s.
- You don’t need to have sex to catch HPV, according to these male virgins with the STD.
- Researchers have found that some transgender people get three times as many HIV tests than others.
- Although it's been 45 years since the end of the Tuskegee Syphillis Study, it's important not to forget what happened to these men, as well as other men who suffered at the hands of American scientists.
- A new study has finally figured out how the gonorrhea bacteria overcomes the female body's protections against invaders.
- A vaccine for genital herpes could stop both that STD and HIV from spreading.
- You have a bump on your genitals. Is it a pimple? Is it herpes? Here’s how to know.
- Most people with the STD trichomaniasis don’t show any symptoms, but the parasite is highly infectious and can hurt unborn babies.
- Herpes is one of the most common STIs contracted in the United States, and is slightly more prevalent in women than men. Here are common herpes symptoms in women.
- A treatment that works like a birth control ring has been shown to cut HIV infection risk by a third for women in sub-Saharan Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is the worst.
- Many men can go years without knowing that they have syphilis, but letting it go untreated could lead to serious organ damage.