Coastal Family Health Center educating community on STD Awareness Month

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognizes April as National STD Awareness Month.

This awareness provides an opportunity to raise awareness about STDs and how they impact our lives.

To help raise awareness, Coastal Family Health Center will be in the community providing education, awareness, tools, and support for patients all month long.

Their first stop was Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Jackson County Campus where they offered students free HIV tests that allowed them to get their results back in less than one minute, on-site prep information was available, along with games and activities.

Special Populations Program Manager Will Holt breaks down the statistics of Mississippi. “We decided to come here to be one of the schools that we chose in Jackson County is due to Jackson County being number two in the state of Mississippi for it having the highest HIV and STD count. Jackson, Mississippi is number one for the state of Mississippi.”

Coastal offers a scope of services for any patients needing information on HIV/AIDS and STDS.

On Friday, they will offer the same event at Coastal Family Health Center’s Moss Point clinic.