Taking steps toward STD/HIV integration.

Abstract

The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors and the National Coalition of STD Directors have published a report on STD/HIV integration that provides reasons for integration as well as steps that state and local jurisdictions can take to support integration. For instance, recent studies have demonstrated that being infected with an STD may take it 2 to 23 times easier to transmit HIV, depending on the specific STD.