The rise of at-home STI testing: a solution to America’s growing problem or a risky gamble?
In 2021, I spent the year before starting medical school calling and counseling the patients of a busy urban emergency department on the results of their sexually transmitted infection (STI) tests.
“What exactly is gonorrhea?” some would ask. “Is there a cure?”
“No one ever taught me about this,” one older gentleman lamented when we discussed using condoms to prevent the transmission of infection.
Stories like his reflect our society’s hesitancy to discuss …
