STD Prevention

Last week, the Columbia City Council approved a new $71,000 contract with the state that will expand access to PrEP, a medication that can keep people from getting HIV through sexual contact or injection drug-use.

In Missouri and throughout the United States, syphilis rates have risen rapidly in the last decade. Pediatric infectious disease specialist Brian Allen shared more information with KBIA.

Boone County is seeing a rise in the number of reported cases of a fairly common sexually transmitted disease – Chlamydia. According to the Missouri…