AU promotes safe sex, offers resources to students

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Augusta College offers safe-sex sources provides and knowledge to college students to enhance sexual well being and scale back danger of catching sexually transmitted illnesses.

AU’s Protected Intercourse Provides Program is a free program to ease entry to safe-sex provides for college students. The college educates college students on STDs, prevention, sexual well being and relationships.

In 2020, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention launched a report exhibiting that Augusta had the sixth most circumstances of STDs within the nation.

Augusta had 1,675 circumstances for each 100,000 individuals. That’s forward of Atlanta, New Orleans and New York.

The latest Georgia Sexually Transmitted Ailments Surveillance Report of 2019 confirmed native reported circumstances of STDs.

Richmond County ranked underneath the highest 10 Georgia counties for circumstances and Columbia County ranked within the high 25.

Reported circumstances in public East Central Well being District, Augusta, in 2019:

• Chlamydia – 3,972
• Gonorrhea – 1,368
• Syphilis – 251

In accordance with the CDC, analysis has reported that condom distribution applications as structural interventions:

• Elevated condom use, condom acquisition, and condom carrying.
• Promoted delayed sexual initiation or abstinence amongst youth.
• Offered cost-effective and cost-saving outcomes on future medical care prices by stopping HIV infections.
• Considerably affected condom use behaviors and helped scale back HIV/STD danger amongst a variety of at-risk teams reminiscent of youth, adults, industrial intercourse employees, excessive STD populations, and males.

College students can fill out a kind, then both have their provides mailed to them or they will request to have their gadgets for choose up on the Scholar Well being workplace. All packages embrace info on use the provides and sexual well being sources.

AU additionally offers info on all issues sexual well being and sexually transmitted illnesses, the place college students can analysis any associated matter supplied.

AU’s Protected-sex Program Targets:

• To make sexual well being provides extra simply accessible to Augusta College college students.

• To take away any disgrace or embarrassment related to buying sexual well being provides.

• To teach the coed participating in sexual actions of the related danger and encourage common STD checks.

• To offer informational materials about sexual well being for connoisseur of all sexual ranges.

• To provide at the least 15% of AU scholar residences with protected intercourse provides

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