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SF Health Officials Put Out Call For Mpox Vaccinations Again Ahead of Pride

If you're among the group of people most likely to be exposed to the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — in the event of a new summer surge in cases, the SF Department of Public Health would like you to please consider seeking out your second dose if you never got that.

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SF Spearheads Launch Of A New ‘Morning After Pill’ For Sexually Transmitted Infections

Move over PrEP, now there’s doxy-PEP, a sort of morning after pill that instead of preventing pregnancy, prevents you from getting an STI after unprotected sex.

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Social Distancing Apparently Didn't Help San Francisco to Stop the Spread of Gonorrhea

Gonorrhea is on the rise across the country, but San Francisco is outpacing the nationwide trend. Go SF! Always ahead of the curve!

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Congratulations: S.F. Likely Source Of New Strain Of Gonorrhea

Last year the talk was about syphilis being on the rise in S.F., and across the country a new, antibiotic-resistant strain of the clap was making headlines too. Well, now they

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What Are All Of Those Smiling Penises In The Window About?

If you've walked around San Francisco's Castro District recently, you might have come across a scene like this: a gaggle of smiling penises starring at you from select storefronts.

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New App Will Help You Deal With STD Paranoia

A new app has just come out for the iPhone that gets you a quick answer from a panel of dermatologists as to whether that spot on your penis is herpes. And, you

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Oh, God: Syphilis On The Rise Again In S.F.

It's that time of year again, when San Francisco public health officials release data from the previous year and send us into new fits of hypochondria and prudishness. The latest cause

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Safe Sex For Seniors

Did you know that STDs were on the rise among elderly people in Florida? Yeah, it's kind of been a thing. The Daily Show even covered it. Rates of STDs are

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Did You Get VD Last Year? A Lot of People in S.F. Did

So, San Francisco is a regular hotbed of STDs, according to the Bay Area Reporter and the public health department, with cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia soaring in particular in 2011. The only

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Next Thursday: World Hepatitis Day

And in some The-More-You-Know news: next Thursday, July 28th is World Hepatitis Day. And with that, the San Francisco Task Force on Hepatitis will organize its first educational outreach campaign,

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National HIV Testing Day Is Today

Before it turned into lazy comedians' anti-gay punchline at bad comedy clubs across the country, HIV/AIDS continues to kill scores of people all over the world. But it doesn'

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Me Love You Long NY Times

The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and