STD Email

[Lone Gunman]

Anonymous E-Mail Tells Partners Of Your STD

Rather than an e-mail virus warning, a new program offers e-mails warning of viruses -- and other types of sexually transmitted diseases.

After a successful effort in San Francisco, health officials in Los Angeles launched inSpotLA.org to give people a way to anonymously tell partners they may have been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea, chlamydia or HIV.

People diagnosed with such diseases can go to the Web site, fill out a warning card and send it off to their sexual partners anonymously. If the sender chooses, he or she can also sign the e-mail.

"By giving people an easy way to notify their sex partners, (the Web site) will enable more people to get tested and treated early for HIV and other STDs, preventing complications and helping stop the chain of infection," said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of public health and health officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

The sites are set up so anyone in the country can use them.

San Francisco launched inSPOT.org in October 2004. Since then, an average of 750 people visit the Bay Area site every day with 500 e-cards sent per month. More than half of those people receiving cards click through for more information about testing and treatment.

Los Angeles' program is the first to add HIV to the menu of STDs on an e-card partner notification system.

[lurker]

Another idea from the queer nation... I'll take a dry leg anyday there's not a tire around.

[Highwayman]

What the heck is an in SPOT?

[TexKan]

Wow - that's just TMI for me........don't think I would like to have that info out on a site - even if it's owned by the health dept - too easy for insurance companies to hack into - I can't believe they haven't had issues with this. Kinda scary to me - gee what if they put your name in, mail the warning, don't sign and you are in what you THINK is a monogamous relationship??? Sounds like a pandora's box to me.....

[lurker]

Yelp. The whole idea is queer.

What's Pandora's Box got to do with this?

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

What the heck is an in SPOT?

I don't know but if someone sent me one of those they wouldn't be in a spot they'd be in deep ..... well you get the picture.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by lurker

Yelp. The whole idea is queer.

Better watch that word Lurker you might be called queercist.

[K C Muffin]

If someone sent ME one of those, I'd know they got the wrong number.....hopefully

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by K C Muffin

If someone sent ME one of those, I'd know they got the wrong number.....opefully

[Highwayman]

I’ve heard of a G-spot. Could that be something like an in SPOT in reverse?