They're preventable, some are curable and all are treatable. Students have the opportunity to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases year-round at Snow Health Center. To get tested for any STD besides HIV, a student must schedule an office appointment. The results of the test are kept confidential. The HIV test is free and completely anonymous.
Students can walk in to the center to have the test.
Fifty-one students were tested for HIV last semester. Papineau said he could not say how many people tested positive. Often times with Chlamydia and HPV there are no symptoms. Often times if they have one infection, they have another one at the same time. Chlamydia can be cured because it is a bacterial infection, Papineau said.