According to a recent press release from the CDC, there were over 2 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis reported in the United States in 2016. In the CDC’s annual Infectious Disease Surveillance Report, it became clear that the most common STD reported last year was chlamydia. Chlamydia accounted for 1.6 million of all…
Online websites have been blamed for an increase in STDs for many years now. Craigslist is said to have played a significant part in the increase of new HIV diagnoses nationwide between 1998 and 2008. Health departments around the country have claimed that STDs are on the rise in the state and one of the…
Since 2000, June has been known as LGBT Pride Month. Former President Bill Clinton deemed the month of June, “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” The month was chosen to commemorate a riot in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan that is thought to be the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the United…
March 10th is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The goal of this event is to raise awareness about the need for all women, especially pregnant women, to be tested and treated for HIV. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015 there were nearly 40,000 people in the United States…
Film can inspire change and build awareness. If a film brings attention to an issue that is being ignored or shows a side to a story that most would have never known, it can make an enormous impact on society. There have been many films about HIV/AIDS since the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. A…
At the end of 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a survey of STDs across the nation. This survey found that last year three infections were at an all-time high. The CDC reported significant rises in chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections in 2016. Not only are these disease becoming common in all…