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Obama Care in the Second Term

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Special Reports

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

San Francisco Bay Area Aims To Tackle STIs With No-Cost Home Tests for Young Women

In a California Healthline Special Report by Deirdre Kennedy, experts discussed a new pilot program designed to help young women in the San Francisco Bay Area obtain no-cost home testing kits for sexually transmitted infections.

The Special Report includes comments from:

  • Heidi Bauer, chief of the state Department of Public Health's Sexually Transmitted Disease Control branch;
  • Victoria Jones, outreach worker with the San Francisco Department of Public Health;
  • Vivian Levy, STD control officer for the San Mateo County Health Department; and
  • Freya Spielberg, senior health scientist at RTI International and director of Research Mentorship at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center (Kennedy, California Healthline, 6/13).

The complete transcript of this Special Report is available as a PDF.

Running Time: 4:33

Reader Comments:
  • 1
  • 06/26/2012
  • David Dickinson

Why do government entities continue to use the term "no cost" or "free of charge", when they really mean that the cost has been shifted to someone else who gets no benefit from their generousity with other people's money? Why can't young women pay for their own tests? And for that matter, why don't young men get "free" tests?



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