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At-home STD tests offer new options for screening and treatment (apnews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/science@mander.xyz

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WASHINGTON (AP) — New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available, a trend that experts hope will keep downward pressure on U.S. infection rates.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first at-home test that can detect three common infections in women — gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis — as well as the first home-based kit for the virus that causes cervical cancer.

The agency ended the year by approving two different drugs for gonorrhea, the first new options for the disease in decades.

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[–] cm0002@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

their content serves mainly to broaden their reach. I don't think you're making things better.

When I started this campaign months ago I had to go back 8-10 pages of the local .ml feed each morning for crossposting. Today, it's down to 1.5-2 pages and the bulk of that is from like 2 hardcore Tankie/.ml users (yogthos and Geneva) so I'd say it's been more helpful than bad

Moreover, your posts are so fast and frequent that they dominate at least some of communities that you target, often leaving local subscribers without a chance to post about the relevant topics on their own. Having watched it happen for more than a few weeks, I have concluded that your posts are mostly annoying, and probably do more harm than good.

I don't expect to convince you to stop, but would you at least consider delaying your reposts by a day, and then proceeding only if nobody in your targeted community has already posted about that topic?

Can you give me some examples? A lot of the comms I post to I'm like the only one posting to. But there are some larger comms I feel like get a heavy hand of it, but bigger comms also have 2 or 3 alternatives across different instances

So maybe a better solution would be to just divvy it up amongst similar comms better?