Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sue Gibson, HIV Patient in Castlewood Case: Other Patients May Have Been Denied Care

The Department of Justice agreed last week that a St. Louis eating disorder clinic discriminated against an HIV-positive woman by intentionally delaying her admittance and denying her treatment. Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders has been ordered to pay a $140,000 settlement, the secon ... More >>

Castlewood Eating Disorder Clinic: Sue Gibson Denied Treatment Because of HIV Status

In a statement released late yesterday afternoon, the Department of Justice announced it reached a settlement with Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders over its refusal to treat an HIV-positive woman suffering from anorexia. Susan Gibson, a mid-Missouri resident, tried to gain acceptanc ... More >>

City of St. Louis Has 2nd Highest Rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the U.S.

Just looked at the new numbers released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. There's a sliver of good news and some pretty bad news. First, the bad news. Among U.S. counties and independent cities, the city of St. Louis had the second-highest rate of both chlamydia and gonorrhea in the ... More >>

David France's stirring history of ACT UP

Get Thirsty

It's a Bug, It's a Pain, It's...Supergonorrhea!

There was much rejoicing last fall when the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report on sexually-transmitted diseases ranking the prevalence of the disease in U.S. cities and St. Louis came in at number 12. Yes, 12! All the way down from number 1 from the 2007 report. The ... More >>

In the Galleries: Adrian Kellard at MOCRA, closes December 18

We're No. 2 in Chlamydia, No. 3 in Gonorrhea!

Image viaFolks, please wear more of these. ​St. Louisans are still ridin' durrty - even more than before! According to fresh stats from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, our city has retained its number-two spot in the nation for cases of chlamydia, and vaulted from twelfth to th ... More >>

Patrick Gregory: Central West End Man Exposed Women to HIV, Say Prosectors

Patrick Gregory had an active sex life, say prosecutors.​A Central West End man stands accused of the three felony charges of recklessly exposing a sex partner to HIV. According to a probable cause statement issued yesterday, 26-year-old Patrick Wayne Gregory had sexual relations with two women w ... More >>

Get Tested: It's National HIV Testing Day

​Today is National HIV Testing Day. Do you know your status? Are you sure?According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than a million people in the U.S. living with HIV. And even though we aren't being bombarded with prevention messages like we were when the disease ... More >>

Mobile STI Testing in The Grove This Weekend

​It can't be said enough: Sexually active people must know whether they have HIV or other sexually-transmitted infections. It's the first and most crucial step in preventing the spread of these infections and in seeking treatment when it's needed."Forty-five percent of new cases [of HIV] are from ... More >>

James Davis: Alleged Child Abuser Accused of Giving 4-Year-Old Chlamydia, Gonorrhea

James Davis​A 19-year-old man stands accused of raping a 4-year-old girl and giving her the sexually transmitted diseases, chlamydia and gonorrhea. James M. Davis of East St. Louis was charged this week with first-degree statutory rape. Authorities say the teenager abused the girl during a three-m ... More >>

Wash. U. Researcher Plans to Use Bee Venom to Stop Pregnancy, HIV

image viaDr. Sam Wickline, killer of sperm and HIV.​We've known for years now that unprotected sex can lead to both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. We've also known that condoms do a pretty good, but by no means perfect, job of blocking sperm and the HIV virus. But ... More >>

St. Louis: No. 2 in Chlamydia; 12th in Gonorrhea

​So, yesterday city leaders were quick to rebuke a national study ranking St. Louis as having the highest crime rate in the nation.Today, another study comes out showing St. Louis as having some of the hightest rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the nation, and city doesn't question the num ... More >>

HIV: A New Challenge For Aging Adults

Grandma didn't see this video​Evolving drug cocktails and treatment modes have changed HIV from a certain death sentence into a long-term health care challenge. Here in Missouri, about half of the people living with the disease are older than 45."We're seeing, for the first time, this actively agi ... More >>

Nigaila Gibbs: St. Louis Prostitute Knowingly Exposed Clients to HIV, Say Police

Nataila, she Gibbs ya more than just a roll in the hay.​Hey guys, does this woman look familiar? If so, you better get yourself to the clinic a.s.a.p. St. Louis County police report that Nigaila Gibbs infected at least two of her johns with HIV, and health department officials worry she exposed ma ... More >>

Worst or First! St. Louis' showings in a plethora of nationwide rankings.

Where to Dine Out for Life -- And Why You Should

​Yesterday Aimee Levitt shared information from the Saint Louis Effort for AIDS (EFA) on the state of AIDS/HIV in St. Louis, and why events like Thursday's Dining Out for Life are still necessary. Even though about 5,000 St. Louisans are living with AIDS, many people are under-informed about t ... More >>

Before You Dine Out For Life, Saint Louis Effort for AIDS Wants You to Know About HIV

Image source​This Thursday, April 29, marks the seventeenth annual Dining Out For Life event where you eat at one of more than 140 local restaurants and they donate a share of the profits to Saint Louis Effort for AIDS, 25-year-old organization that provides support services to people who hav ... More >>

Local STD Club Increases Membership Despite Obvious Recruitment Challenges

​You think your organization has trouble recruiting new members? Try forming a club solely for people willing to admit they have herpes and/or genital warts. It ain't easy. "I've tried a lot of tactics," says the 29-year-old female founder of St. Louis H Club who, for the purposes of this post, we ... More >>

18 Symbols That Should Be Made "Official" in Missouri

​In Missouri, legislators didn't think it was a good idea to name a dead dog as the official state canine. On Thursday, the state House defeated a bill aimed at making "Seamen," the dog that accompanied Lewis and Clark on their trip West, the official canine in our state. As the Post-Dispatch ... More >>

Stronger Together

Good Night, Sweet Prince

Ask a Mexican: English as a Second Language: The rest of the world knows English; are a few signs for Mexicans too much to ask?

Thank God for Baltimore! St. Louis No Longer Leads Nation in Two Painful STDs

​St. Louis shares many things in common with Baltimore, Maryland. We have the same brick infrastructure, the same *&%@ed up government, the same run-away crime and -- now -- the same STD. Yesterday the Center for Disease Control published findings indicating that Baltimore has surpassed St. Lo ... More >>

ROBBIE ALOMAR GAVE ME AIDS! and Other Headlines You Thought Were Jokes

Oh, for the love of god. What in the world is happening to the game of baseball? We've got steroid allegations cropping up every day, Bud Selig is somehow making more money that Albert Pujols, and now, of all things, a lawsuit centering on AIDS. Roberto Alomar, the former major league seco ... More >>

Got Clap? St. Louisans Do. Chlamydia, Too!

Playas and hoes, take note: The Center for Disease Control is out with its annual report on sexually transmitted diseases. Once again St. Louis tops all other U.S. cities in the percentage of its population that came down with chlamydia and gonorrhea (right) in 2007 -- the most recent year in which ... More >>

STD-Day: The recent HIV scare at Normandy High School has prompted cries for better sex education

In Wake of Normandy High's HIV Scare, Free Testing Available

Quench Your Thirst

It's beneficial

An official state beer? Unreal's all over that one! Plus: We ring them bells and play CDs to our dog.

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

Strummin' with the Devil

B-Sides walks a Mean Street, is saved by the Apostlez.

ARK Angels

DIY DNA

Unreal learns some CSI-style tricks. And then: a tale of whiskey and venereal disease.

Who We've Lost

Choose Life

Don't cook

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Unreal News Challenge 2005!

Time again to take the year-end quiz

The Great Imitator

The scourge of syphilis re-emerges, deadlier than before

Best Musical

Falsettos

Get Poked, Get Paid

Clinical drug trials offer good money, comfy dorms -- and sometimes even a free buzz. But beware: They're gonna suck your blood like Dracula.

Code Red

The bleeding won't stop. The city health director's job remains a revolving door as Dr. Hugh Stallworth is vanquished in a fierce bureaucratic battle.

AIDS Walk: A Big Deal

Take steps in the right direction with the AIDS Foundation of St. Louis

Is Avoiding Sexually Transmitted Disease a Major Concern?

Week of October 1, 2003

Phantom Planet

An intimate production addresses AIDS without mentioning its name, and ghosts fill the stage

Ode to Joy

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is not so much a eulogy of AIDS victims as it is a celebration of life

Best Lawsuit

Deuschle v. Jobe

Unbroken Promise

A young woman raises her voice in the face of despair