Check Yourself
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health syphilis testing campaign for men who have sex with men, launched in 2007 to follow Stop the Sores.
- Years
- 2007–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- HIV/STI
- Asks people to
- Start
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- OutdoorPrint
- Audience
- AdultsMenMen who have sex with men in Los Angeles County.
Evidence
ObservationalMixed
2009 survey of 306 MSM (Plant 2014): total awareness was 88%, but overall awareness was not linked to recent testing. Men with confirmed awareness (knew it was about syphilis, 30%) were more than 6 times as likely to have been tested recently.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Los Angeles County Department of Public Health State local government, funder and creator
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Stop the Sores 2002–now
Sources
- Plant A et al. Check Yourself: a social marketing campaign to increase syphilis screening in Los Angeles County. Sex Transm Dis 2014;41(1):50-7 evaluation · 2014 · DOI 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000069 · PMID 24326583
Research notes
Created 2026-10-22 by literature mining (PubMed/OpenAlex); evidence level, outcome and findings are paraphrased from the evaluation abstracts, full texts not read. No credits: no page naming an agency was checked. US-CA (Los Angeles County).
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