Let's Talk About Asymptomatic STIs

Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH is an infectious disease specialist with a focus on LGBTQAI communities. He is the Acting Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, deployed from his position as the Director of the Division of HIV Prevention in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at CDC.
This video is a joint production of KFF’s GREATER THAN and CDC’s LET’S STOP HIV TOGETHER.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hey, you, you. If you don't know me, I'm Dr. Demetre and I'm here to answer all of your questions about sexual health.
It's important that if you're thinking about sexually transmitted infections that you remember many of them have no symptoms.
So, waiting for a burn or a drip or a sore throat or a sore butt, that doesn't work.
So, it's really important if you're a sexually active, specifically gay, bisexual, other men who has men who has sex with men, to think about getting screened, even with no symptoms for HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia at three sites, both your throat, your anus, as well as in either your urine or in a swab.
As well as, syphilis through a blood test.