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Staring Down the Stigma of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Ina Park approaches her subject with humor. She’s concerned, for example, with the habitat loss of crabs in the face of pubic hair deforestation.Credit.Ian Mackay
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By Emily Nagoski
By Ina Park
Ina Park’s résumé is impressive: She’s a physician, part of the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, and a medical consultant on sexually transmitted diseases at the C.D.C. But these are not the credentials that gave me hope that she would write a great book about sexually transmitted infections and the stigma surrounding them. After all, a typical North American medical education includes about 10 hours of sex education, which is less than I received in my first weekend of undergraduate training as a sex educator 25 years ago. What gave me hope that the book would exceed expectations was Park’s college work as a peer sex educator herself, when she dressed up as a giant condom and performed a
Zurik: Forged signature raises questions about test for sexually transmitted diseases
FBI agents conducted a ‘court authorized search’ of the New Orleans lab in October 2020
Zurik: Forged signature raises questions about test for sexually transmitted diseases By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich | February 10, 2021 at 9:55 PM CST - Updated February 10 at 10:45 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - When a doctor gives a test to determine if a patient has a potentially serious disease doctors and patients rely on that test to be accurate. But questions have surfaced on a test developed in a New Orleans lab and approved based on forged documents.
New data published by the CDC estimate that on any given day in 2018, 1 in 5 people in the U.S. had a sexually transmitted infection (STI). The analyses, published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, show the burden of STIs in the U.S.