NYC To Launch STD Outreach Program For Uninsured New Yorkers, Migrants

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The city is launching a new outreach program to try to curb sexually transmitted diseases among uninsured New Yorkers, including migrants, The Post has learned.

Health Department officials reported a significant 36% spike in syphilis cases among women and an 11% jump in the gonorrhea rate among men in the city in 2022 — when a tidal wave of migrants began flooding the Big Apple, according to the most recent data available.

For both sexes combined, the city saw a 3% increase in syphilis cases that year compared to 2021, a 3% increase in chlamydia cases and 10% increase in gonorrhea cases.

“Assuring comprehensive and timely screening and treatment for STIs [Sexually Transmitted Infections], including chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, is critical for preventing … infertility, increased susceptibility to HIV, and congenital syphilis—as well as preventing onward spread to sex partners,” the department said in a pitch to potential bidders to run the program.

“Those who have immigrated to the US face barriers including insurance ineligibility (for undocumented and DACA recipients), delays in eligibility to access public health insurance programs (for documented immigrants), and barriers in understanding eligibility standards,” it added.

More than 212,000 migrants have sought assistance since arriving in the city starting in mid-2022, with 63,000 currently in the Big Apple’s shelter system, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.

Last year, Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan raised the alarm that half the migrants entering the city had not been tested for the contagious and potentially deadly polio virus.

Most low-income citizens have access to health insurance such as Medicaid to be screened and treated for sexually transmitted infections including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV.

But the department said it’s more difficult to reach the hundreds of thousands of uninsured New Yorkers, including asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants here illegally and other young people.

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Health Department officials reported a significant 36% spike in syphilis cases among women and an 11% jump in the gonorrhea rate among men in the city in 2022 — when a tidal wave of migrants began …

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They are only including the uninsured because if they said it was just for illegals people would be more outraged than they already are taking care of all these parasites.

Any of these people caught at the border should be tested for STDS and if they have them told to walk their ass back in the direction they came.

Illegals being infertile actually would be a good thing but some left would say we would need to pay to help them get pregnant.