the "coming clean" site
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:09 pm
You've Got Mail... And Maybe an STD, Too
Web Site Lets People Warn Someone Anonymously After a Sexual Encouter
By BRIAN ROONEY
Dec. 16, 2005 †™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™‚¢‚¢¢¢¬…¡‚¬? The same generation that's using the Internet to find dates is also using the Web to tell their partners they may have taken away something more than a nice memory from their romantic encounter.
The Los Angeles County Health Department has established a Web site, www.inSpotLA.org/, targeted mostly toward gay men, which allows users to inform their sexual partners that they may have been exposed to disease.
Featured on the site is a selection of electronic greeting cards with a variety of chatty greetings to choose from: "There's something I need to tell you."
"It's not what you brought to the party, it's what you left with."
And there's the payoff line: "I got an STD, and you might have it too."
LA County's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, said, "It does not give people a diagnosis. All it does is tell somebody that they may have been exposed and they should get tested." (continues...)
Some critics have questioned whether this is the best way to tell someone they might have been exposed, particularly to HIV. But, "The best thing is for people to disclose," said Karen Mall of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "That's the message."
From: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1415206
Web Site Lets People Warn Someone Anonymously After a Sexual Encouter
By BRIAN ROONEY
Dec. 16, 2005 †™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™‚¢‚¢¢¢¬…¡‚¬? The same generation that's using the Internet to find dates is also using the Web to tell their partners they may have taken away something more than a nice memory from their romantic encounter.
The Los Angeles County Health Department has established a Web site, www.inSpotLA.org/, targeted mostly toward gay men, which allows users to inform their sexual partners that they may have been exposed to disease.
Featured on the site is a selection of electronic greeting cards with a variety of chatty greetings to choose from: "There's something I need to tell you."
"It's not what you brought to the party, it's what you left with."
And there's the payoff line: "I got an STD, and you might have it too."
LA County's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, said, "It does not give people a diagnosis. All it does is tell somebody that they may have been exposed and they should get tested." (continues...)
Some critics have questioned whether this is the best way to tell someone they might have been exposed, particularly to HIV. But, "The best thing is for people to disclose," said Karen Mall of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "That's the message."
From: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1415206