When: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Morris Auditorium
“Activity one” involves an interprofessional panel from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., where the guest speakers will address the following issues:
- Describe stories seen in practice.
- Provide students with information regarding self-check tools they can use to evaluate their own sexual health.
- Describe the roles a physician can play to help promote safe sexual practices among their patients.
- Address the question of how we can incorporate standard sexual annual check-ups (testing) in primary care settings and describe the concrete barriers in the healthcare system that are preventing this and how we can find a solution.
- Provide students with informative ways through which health care professionals can promote safe sex practice and sexual health from a public health perspective.
- Address the question of what concrete barriers set by the federal government/municipalities/counties are currently impacting the ability to prevent/treat STDs.
“Activity two,” involves a health fair where a mobile unit will be on site between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. (shift A) at Morris at the Health Division Department and again from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (shift B) at Don Taft University in front of the statue. SCCP members will be providing patient education to members of the school population based on the testing provided on the mobile unit. The mobile unit performs rapid HIV testing, blood draws for syphilis and Hepatitis C, and if there is space to utilize a restroom onsite, they can also offer full panel STI testing.
Students are not required nor expected to get tested. This is just to break the stigma on testing and to increase awareness.