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How to talk about STDs - Using STD Videos to Model Communication

Teaching sexual communication skills is an important component of sex education. Without the ability to communicate about sexual health, young people are not able to make and follow through on healthy decisions and may be put at risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Classroom settings are limited in their ability to illustrate what healthy communication between partners looks like in real-life situations.

NCSH Quarterly Social Media Campaign Part One: Telehealth for Sexual Health

This is the 27th NCSH quarterly social media campaign, which includes sample sexual health content that you can use and/or adapt for your digital and social media channels. We hope you will share this campaign with social media staff within your organization. We have formatted this content for Twitter, but it can be adapted for Facebook as well. Our theme for this campaign is telehealth for sexual health. It includes tweets relating to telehealth for sexual health care generally, and telehealth for birth control, HIV prevention and care, and STI care.

Sexual Health Questions to Ask All Patients

This new sexual history-taking tool includes a 6th P to help providers talk with patients about sexual pleasure, problems, and pride. It builds upon CDC's 5 Ps approach that asks patients about 1) Partners 2) Practices 3) Past History of STIs 4) Protection, and 5) Pregnancy Prevention/Reproductive Life Plan.

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