Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County provides STD testing, treatment and education.

For an appointment please call (850)983-5200, option 2.

Patients will be tested for the following:

• Gonorrhea
• Chlamydia
• HIV
• Syphilis

Did You Know?

• STDs affect people of all races, ages, and sexual orientations.
• CDC estimates that there are 19 million new infections every year in the United States.
• STDs cost the U.S. health care system $17 billion every year and cost individuals even more.
• Less than half of people who should be screened receive recommended STD screening services.
• Each year, untreated STDs cause at least 24,000 women in the U.S. to become infertile.

Prevention 

Florida's congenital syphilis case reports increased 82 percent from 99 to 180 cases between 2017 and 2021. Reported cases of accompanying adult syphilis have risen dramatically as well, from 8.954 cases in  2017, to 16,438 in 2021, an 83 percent increase. This increase is especially concerning for females of childbearing age which is up 63 percent. These trends have led to more adverse impacts among infants born to untreated mothers, including 72 syphilitic stillbirths and infant deaths between 2017 and 2021.

For more information, visit stopsyphilis.com.

The Florida Department of Health's 3T's to Prevent the Spread of STDs.

Talk: Talk to your partner and your health care provider about risk factors, safer sex methods and testing.

Test: Make an appointment for STD testing.

Links 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – STDs

Florida Department of Health – STDs