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Bay City News
San Francisco

New E-Tool To Help Gay Men Inform Partners About STD's
http://www.inspot.org/tell-them/

Oct. 6 (BCN) --
San Francisco health officials have kicked off a new
"hip, funny, and to-the-point" way for gay men to inform their
partners that they might have been exposed to a sexually transmitted
disease.

The Department of Public Health's STD Services Web site
http://www.inspot.org
http://www.inspot.org/tell-them/
will allow men diagnosed with an STD to notify their partners via
electronic postcard that they need to get tested.

Full article:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/1006...egreeting.html

Reporting site:
http://www.inspot.org/
http://www.inspot.org/tell-them/

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Potential sex partners can get tested together before
than after it could be too late
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"Don Saklad" <dsaklad@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote...
That's just sick. "Hee hee! I've got something hilarious to tell you!
I just tested HIV+ and I'm pretty sure I gave it to you! Isn't that a
riot?!?"

I can understand the health department's attempt to notify victims via
e-mail, as direct confrontation by the perpetrator is likely to result
in a shooting. Still, I wonder if that wouldn't be better, as it
would remove him from the population and prevent him from infecting
others.