STD Awareness Month

Welcome STD Prevention Partners and Stakeholders!

April is STD Awareness Month, an annual observance to raise public awareness about the impact of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on the lives of Americans and the importance of preventing, testing for, and treating STDs. It is an opportunity to normalize routine STD testing and conversations about sexual health.

This Web site was created for STD prevention partners and stakeholders to support STD prevention outreach. We encourage you to visit this site throughout the year to access materials, education tools, and information to support your STD Awareness and other prevention activities. We hope the content on this site will assist your efforts to educate, motivate, and mobilize your local community in the prevention of STDs, not just in April, but year round.

MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other partners are supporting National STD Awareness Month with the GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign to inform young people about STDs, encourage and normalize testing for STDs, and connect young people to testing centers. While here on the STD Awareness Month site, please check out our GYT campaign section for the latest campaign materials to help spread the word through posters, banner ads, widgets, and more. Click here for partner information about the GYT campaign or go directly to the campaign Web site at www.GYTnow.org.

Click here for the GYT press release with a statement from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).

For more information on STDs, visit www.cdc.gov/std.

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