CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A group in South Carolina is taking part in a nationwide effort to have young people tested and treated for sexually transmitted diseases.
Planned Parenthood plans a news conference in Charleston Tuesday to help kick off the effort, being mounted nationwide with the help of MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation
The campaign is designed to encourage testing and treatment for STDs in young people under 25.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, South Carolina ranks third nationally in the rate of gonorrhea, 12th for syphilis and 10th for AIDS.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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