The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of programs that test for communicable diseases and help prevent their spread. These same lessons should be applied to sexually transmitted diseases, ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A rapid increase in sexually transmitted diseases across the nation has health experts alarmed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its 2018 STD ...

“One of the things we really focus on is when there is a new incidence or case of an STD, we try to notify that person’s partner as quickly as possible by making the patient feel comfortable in ...

When a national study released in March found one in four girls aged 14 to 19 are infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, some parents and teenagers were shocked. But physicians and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas remains one of just a handful of states without legal requirements for sex education in the midst of rising cases of sexually transmitted diseases. In 2018, the Centers ...

(KUTV) Utah's gonorrhea rates are up more than 700 percent for women in the last few years. Overall the numbers have jumped nearly 400 percent. The startling statistics have the state and local health ...

When eight high school students are commissioned to make a graphic novel about sexual health, don’t be surprised if the result includes pet dragons, a troll with genital warts and a guy named Funk ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Two STDs top the list for the most common diseases in Salt Lake County and the health department says the current approach to sex education is not working. Chlamydia and ...