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.

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<h1>San Francisco Bay Area Aims To Tackle STIs With No-Cost Home Tests for Young Women</h1>
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<p>In a <i>California Healthline </i>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.</p><p>The Special Report includes comments from:</p><ul><li>Heidi Bauer, chief of the state Department of Public Health’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Control branch; </li><li>Victoria Jones, outreach worker with the San Francisco Department of Public Health; </li><li>Vivian Levy, STD control officer for the San Mateo County Health Department; and </li><li>Freya Spielberg, senior health scientist at RTI International and director of Research Mentorship at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center (Kennedy, <i>California Healthline</i>, 6/13).</li></ul><p>The complete transcript of this Special Report is <a href="https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/06/chlspecialreporttranscript061312.pdf">available as a PDF</a>.</p><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p>

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