New E-Card designed for STD notification
Reuters is reporting on an interesting web based health initiative designed to make it easier to tell partners about a recent STD diagnosis. The service offers six different e-cards that someone can send (either signed or unsigned) after being diagnosed with an STD to let people you’ve had sexual contact with know they may want to get tested.
“It’s not what you brought to the party, it’s what you left with. I left with an STD, you might have, too” reads one e-card.
"This is another opportunity for people to disclose STD exposure to partners because sometimes people don't always have that face-to-face opportunity, or that level of relationship," Karen Mall, director of prevention and testing at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said on Thursday.
"Partner disclosure is where we really have the opportunity to break the chain of HIV infection," Mall said.
While there will always be people who take a site like this and use it to send false emails around, this site is making great use web resources to offer another tool in the reduction of the spread of STDs.
Tell Them E-Card Initiative - InSpotLA
You’ve Got Mail, and maybe gonorrhea - Reuters News Item
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