STD
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subscriber trunk dialling
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subscriber toll dialling
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sexually transmitted disease
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Doctor of Sacred Theology
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Etymology
Origin of STD1
First recorded in 1970–75
Origin of S.T.D.3
From New Latin Sacrae Theologiae Doctor
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In a statement, Dr. Jonathan Mermin, the director of CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention said he saw a “glimmer of hope amidst millions of STIs.”
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
Stephanie Pang, a senior director with the coalition of STD directors, said that given the critical role of this drug and the severe access concerns, she thinks a stockpile is necessary.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2024
By 2002, cases began rising again, with men who have sex with other men being disproportionately affected, though the STD is spreading among several demographics.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
That could change as more research is done, said Mermin, who oversees the CDC’s STD efforts.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
Zenilman, likewise, wasn’t saying that the STD clinics in Baltimore were shut down.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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This included 2,402 patients for birth control and S.T.D. testing, 815 abortion patients and 724 patients for gender-affirming hormone therapy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
“Our most effective tool for control is timely diagnosis and treatment,” said Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the Division of S.T.D.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
The center, in Terre Haute, Indiana, is one of more than twenty-five hundred such C.P.C.s in the U.S.—Christian organizations that provide services including free pregnancy testing, low-cost S.T.D. testing, parenting classes, and ultrasounds.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
“There are tools available to prevent every case of congenital syphilis,” Gail Bolan, director of the C.D.C.’s Division of S.T.D.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
Wesleyan conferred degree of LL.D. and Harvard that of LL.D. and S.T.D. all before he was fifty years of age.
From Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity by Winship, A. E.
Questions on sample sizes, analysis methods, std deviations, etc.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
If you are taking std deduction, that loss is not made up by increase in std deduction.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017
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