STD Health Disparities

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STD health disparities are differences in disease rates* that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation.

What is CDC doing about STD disparities?

In June 2007, CDC's Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) met with community leaders, and other partners who work with African American communities to talk about developing acceptable and effective approaches to reduce STD disparities. Read the report. Read the report .

After the meeting, DSTDP formed an STD disparities workgroup and developed a strategic plan to reduce STDs among African Americans and other groups with high numbers of reported cases of STDs. As part of the plan DSTDP will prioritize and monitor activities, and evaluate and assess the effectiveness of activities in preventing and controlling STDs in the most affected groups.

 Resources

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases Special Issue - the background papers from CDC's 2007 Consultation to Address STD Disparities in African American Communities (23 February 2009)
• Consultation to Address STD Disparities in African-American Communities - June 5 - 6, 2007 Meeting Report
  (18 October 2007)
• Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and Tuberculosis in the US: Issues, Burden and Response
  (25 November 2007)
  
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2006 National Health Disparities Report
• Federal Collaboration on Health Disparities Research (FCHDR)
• Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health 
  

 Other Health Disparities

• Health Disparities – Information from CDC
• Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB
• Health Disparities in Cancer
• Healthy Youth, Addressing Health Disparities
• Smoking & Tobacco Use, Health Disparities
• Chronic Disease Prevention, Health Disparities: A Selected Bibliography
• Occupational Health Disparities
• TB in African Americans

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* Rate - A rate is an expression of the frequency with which an event occurs in a defined population. Using rates, rather than raw numbers of reported cases, allows comparison between and among populations. Rates used here are expressed as the number of cases per 100,000 persons in the population being presented.

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