Larry Webb executive director, Women's Hope Medical Clinic

Your View: Women's Hope offers free student STD, AIDS test

Editor, The Auburn Plainsman,I want to respond to the Sexual Health Report Card that was published in the October 21 edition of The Plainsman. To say the least, it was distressing for us at Women's Hope to see that Sperling's BestPlaces actually published the statement that HIV testing wasn't available to AU students or couldn't be found.The same remark was made for STD testing as well--that it was not available and couldn't be found for Auburn students.Both statements are false.Women's Hope Medical Clinic at 820 Stage Road here in Auburn, a very short drive from campus, provides both HIV testing and STD testing for both men and women at no cost to the student.And it's totally confidential.In addition to HIV/AIDS, we also test for chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis and HPV/genital warts.This testing is done at no charge to the student and, again, it's confidential. Women's Hope is on campus at AU every month eager to give out our testing information.We're on the Haley Center Concourse.If AU students see us there, please stop by and get all the info you need to be sexually healthy.We love AU students, and we're here to serve.Larry Webbexecutive director,Women's Hope Medical Clinic