Posts Tagged ‘testing’
Don’t Tell Mom Billy’s Peeing In the Cup
Something I missed while I was on vacation—D.C. will offer STD tests to every high school student in the District this year:
the tests are administered by taking groups of 15 to 20 students at a time to the restroom area. The students are given paper bags containing urine collection cups and enter bathroom stalls. Once they get in the stalls, they can choose whether or not to provide urine samples. All the students return the paper bags, so other students do not necessarily know who did or did not provide a sample. Students provide a password and then call in a week later to get their result and treatment, if necessary.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that last year, a pilot program found that 13 percent of D.C. public school students tested positive for STDs (”mostly gonorrhea or chlamydia”).
The HIV Blame Game: Let the Debate Begin
Blogger Black Informant, with whom I disagree.
Yesterday, I wrote a post calling out Black Informant, a blogger who called out homosexuals for the striking new HIV/AIDS numbers in the District. The blogger then proceeded to call me out, in a post titled “Calling Amanda Hess of the Washington City Paper.” Black Informant wanted to debate. Well, here we go!
