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Services of the Sexually Transmitted
Disease (STD) Control Program

The STD Control Program provides the following services:

• maintains a citywide screening program for chlamydia and gonorrhea which targets adolescents and women of child-bearing age.  Through early detection of infection and adequate treatment, complications including disseminated infection, pelvic inflammatory disease and lifelong infertility can be prevented.  Continued spread of infection can also be interrupted.
• conducts screening for syphilis through community-based screening activities which focus on persons at increased risk of infection in such locations as soup kitchens, bars, drug rehabilitation centers, prostitute strips and crackhouses.
• conducts citywide surveillance for syphilis through assurance of compliance with regulations which require laboratories to report all positive tests to the Department.
• provides STD training to medical residents from various city hospitals through the STD Clinic in District Health Center #1.
• provides consultation to physicians and other health care providers managing patients with sexually transmitted diseases.

Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics
Philadelphia Health Care Center #1 is the largest categorical STD clinic in Philadelphia.  Health Care Center #5 and Episcopal Hospital also have categorical STD clinics.  These clinics provide walk-in examination and treatment for a wide range of sexually transmitted diseases.  Health Care Center #1 also offers confidential and anonymous counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS.

Health Care Center #1
1400 Lombard Street, 1st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Information: (215) 685-6570
FAX: (215) 545-7268

Health Care Center #5
1920 N. 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19121
Information: (215) 685-2933
FAX: (215) 765-2409

Episcopal Hospital - Walk-In STD Clinic
CHC Building
100 E. Lehigh Avenue, 1st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Information: (215) 427-9835