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Article: Los Angeles County Launches Unprecedented Media Campaign to Fight Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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- June 26, 2007
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Effort Moves Beyond the Billboard to Reach African American women and Latinas, Gay and Bi-sexual Men
LOS ANGELES, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has launched an innovative campaign to reverse the increase in cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia in the County. The public education campaign, funded by the County Board of Supervisors, repeatedly and strongly urges young, sexually-active African American women and Latinas, gay and bi-sexual men to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) every six months.
"The rates of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia are all alarmingly high and rising in our ...