With the nation’s abysmal STD rates exacerbated by the pandemic, public health experts are calling for more money for STD testing and treatment in an effort to reverse the increases
of swabs, glass vials and other testing supplies. Millions of people lost their jobs and, with them, their health insurance. And a surge in addiction and mental health problems contributed to riskier behavior, such as trading sex for drugs, seeking out anonymous sex and skipping routine health care.
“It’s not a lot of money in terms of what is needed to make a serious dent in the problem,” Harvey said of the small bump in federal STD prevention funds. “We are looking to Biden and the Congress to ramp up next year.” “Anything that puts an obstacle in a person’s way to accessing preventative services is antagonistic to public health,” Jonathan Mermin, the director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, told POLITICO. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“If they win, all of the preventative services would have to go back to the drawing board,” explained Roger Severino, the former head of HHS’ Office of Civil Rights under the Trump administration who now works at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “Congress would have to act quickly.”
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