STD Awareness Month

Welcome STD Prevention Partners and Stakeholders!

April is STD Awareness Month, an annual observance to raise public awareness about the impact of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on the lives of Americans and the importance of preventing, testing for and treating STDs. It is an opportunity to normalize routine STD testing and conversations about sexual health.

This Web site was created for STD prevention partners and stakeholders to support STD prevention outreach. We encourage you to visit this site throughout the year to access materials, education tools, and information to support your STD Awareness and other prevention activities. We hope the content on this site will assist your efforts to educate, motivate, and mobilize your local community in the prevention of STDs, not just in April, but year round

Throughout April, MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation, working with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and other partners nationwide, are supporting National STD Awareness Month with the GYT ("Get Yourself Tested") campaign to inform young people about STDs and normalize testing. Click here for partner information about the GYT campaign and to help spread the word through banner ads, widgets, and more. Or, go directly to the campaign website at www.GYT09.org

Click here to read media statements from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), and Dr. John Douglas, Director, Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, NCHHSTP.

For more information on STDs, visit www.cdc.gov/std

 

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