Except for HIV tests, the FDA hasn’t approved STD test kits for use outside a medical setting. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every ...

But, except for HIV tests, the Food and Drug Administration hasn't approved STD test kits for use outside a medical setting. That leaves consumers unsure about their reliability even as at-home ...

More than 1.5 million people contracted chlamydia in 2015, an increase of 5.9 percent from the year before. Similarly, gonorrhea cases jumped 12.8 percent to almost 400,000 cases.

Indeed, a 2017 paper in the Journal of Infectious Diseases concluded that "the public health response to M. genitalium is in its infancy," and cited the lack of an FDA-approved test as a barrier ...