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On brown and dark skin, genital warts are often brown or darker, not the pink bumps in most …
From $0 at a Title X clinic to $489 for a self-order lab panel: what STD testing costs …
Cold sores come from HSV-1, a virus most Black adults carry. Here is how they look on brown …
A standard STI panel checks four infections and quietly leaves out herpes, trichomonas, and every site except the …
Syphilis is curable with a single penicillin shot in its early stages, but it hides behind a painless …
Gonorrhea is cured by a single injection of ceftriaxone, and that is the whole treatment. The regimen changed …
There is no routine chlamydia screening recommendation for men in the United States, so a man can carry …
Chlamydia almost never causes symptoms in women, so it is caught by a test you request rather than …
Genital herpes is described against red skin in nearly every medical photo, and that is not how it …
About one in three Black women carries HSV-2, the virus behind genital herpes, and most do not know …
PrEP is a daily pill or a shot that prevents HIV, and it works about 99 percent of …
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