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Abstract: 

In 1998, the Chicago Department of Public Health STD/HIV Prevention and Care Program (CDPH) began collaborating with the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (CCJTDC) on a pilot project to provide urine-based STD screening to the detainees of the facility. This began a productive relationship that has expanded to not only provide routine (voluntary) STD screening of all incoming detainees at intake, but to also furnish health education around STDs, HIV, and related topics to females and younger males in the facility, a weekly reproductive health clinic for adolescent women and, very soon, hepatitis education and hepatitis B immunization with appropriate follow- up for the completion of the series.

Keywords: STD Rates, Drug Treatment, STD morbidity, family planning, contraception, pregnancy

Affiliations:  1: Chicago Department of Public Health.