Stigma-free online tests offered as sexually transmitted diseases rise in B.C.

Online dating, casual hookups and a decline in safe sex practices due to a diminished fear of HIV/AIDS are factors contributing to rising rates of sexually transmitted illnesses such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and an emerging condition called lymphogranuloma venereum.
Sexually transmitted infections have been rising across the province for several years, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. About 20,000 B.C. residents tested positive last year for a sexually transmittable&nbs