What you need to know: Mayuge District Health Officer, Dr Asuman Basembeza, said infections such as HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia are still being reported at health facilities, with many ...

BioReference Direct reflects a broader shift toward more accessible, consumer-driven healthcare, where diagnostics play a central role in enabling earlier insights, informed decisions, and ongoing ...

April marks STI (sexually-transmitted infections) awareness week, and the Virginia Department of Health said staying educated ...

In Kenya, infections like HIV, human papilloma virus (HPV), chlamydia, syphilis and hepatitis B remain widespread.

Public health teams across the state ramped up efforts to target STIs after a sharp increase between 2020 and 2021.

But sending an e-card telling someone to get tested for STDs may be a public health courtesy. Since 2004, a free Web site, inSpot.org has allowed users to anonymously notify their partners to get ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...

People commonly use the terms STD and STI to describe health conditions that individuals can transmit through sexual activity. As some of these conditions do not produce symptoms, STI is now the ...

Systematic screening for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae at oral, anal, and vaginal sites could increase case detection rates compared with traditional vaginal-only testing in women.

Background: The Alinity m STI assay is an in vitro reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) assay for use with the automated Alinity m System for the direct, qualitative detection and ...