{"id":38166,"date":"2016-03-18T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38166"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:12:10","slug":"free-sti-testing-event-for-brock-university-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/03\/free-sti-testing-event-for-brock-university-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Free STI testing event for Brock University students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Niagara Region Public Health and Brock University Student Health Services will host a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing day at the University on Wednesday, March 23 from noon to 5 p.m. This is in response to rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea continuing to in crease in Niagara, year over year. STI testing is confidential, quick and easy, and no health card is required to participate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>WHO:\u00a0Niagara Region Public Health and Brock University Student Health Services<\/p>\n<p>WHAT:\u00a0Confidential, quick and easy urine testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea<\/p>\n<p>WHERE:\u00a0Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre Lobby Brock University<\/p>\n<p>WHEN:\u00a0Wednesday, March 23 Noon \u2013 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>WHY: \u2022 To raise awareness of the ease of STI testing,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reduce stigma of STI testing,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Niagara\u2019s rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea increase each year,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 64% of Niagara\u2019s chlamydia cases in 2015 occurred between the\u00a0ages of 15-24,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Up to 80% of people with a Chlamydia or Gonorrhea infection have no\u00a0signs or symptoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara Region Public Health and Brock University Student Health Services will host a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing day at the University on Wednesday, March 23 from noon to 5 p.m. This is in response to rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea continuing to in crease in Niagara, year over year. STI testing is confidential, quick and easy, and no health card is required to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3952,1403,3951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38167,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38166\/revisions\/38167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}