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STD Awareness Week 2020
April 12-18 is STD Awareness Week! Here are some resources to help you make the most out of the week. Join the social media conversation at #STDWeek.
CDC STD Awareness Week Campaign Toolkit
This toolkit from CDC serves as a guide to help partners understand each of the four campaigns, their themes, audiences, and includes corresponding materials. The four campaigns are Treat Me Right, Syphilis Strikes Back, Get Yourself Tested (GYT), and Talk. Test. Treat.
More Resources
- Letter from the CDC – Division of STD Prevention announcing the change from STD Awareness Month to STD Awareness Week
- STD Treatment Options – DC Dear Colleague Letter, harm reduction STD treatment options for use during COVID
- General STD Week Resources
- Get Yourself Tested Campaign Resources
- Talk. Test. Treat. Campaign Resources
- Syphilis Strikes Back Campaign Resources
- Treat Me Right Campaign Resources
- “How’s Your Sexual Health” Quiz -National Coalition for Sexual Health
- LHD Efforts to Implement & Promote Extragenital Testing – National Association of County & City Health Officials
STDs and COVID-19
- Sex in the Time of COVID-19 – safer sex infographic from the Oregon Health Authority
- Sex & COVID-19: Get The Facts – Power Point Presentation from Whitman-Walker
- TellYourContacts – Building Healthy Online Communities (BHOC), this site allows individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 to notify their contacts via text or email that they may have been exposed.
- Sex and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – NYC Department of Health
- An Army of Contact Tracers Will Bend the COVID-19 Curve – NCSD Press Statement 4/6/2020
- Update: Starved Public Health System In Distress, STD First Respondents Spring Into Action Against COVID-19 – NCSD Press Statement 3/23/2020
- Starved Public Health System in Distress, STD First Responders Spring into Action Against COVID-19 – NCSD Press Statement 3/20/2020
To fight COVID-19, build an army of public health Disease Intervention Specialists. Feel free to share this video and spread the word about how crucial DIS are to fighting COVID-19.
Sample Social Media Posts
These posts are can be used to complement an official statement about the observance of STD Week and health department activities around STD prevention. (For all options, jurisdictions that want to highlight a specific disease rather than all STDs can just replace “STDs” with the specific disease name.)