STD Clinic and Field Services

Clinic Services

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) provides clinical services in all its 64 county health departments across the state to anyone seeking STD testing, treatment, and counseling by registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical doctors. Clinic sites in each Alabama county offer STD services at no cost. Every client receives highly professional and confidential STD clinical services.

Clinical services for STDs include health history and risk assessment, physical examination, and routine STD testing for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Trichomoniasis, Syphilis, and HIV. Clinics provide presumptive treatment based on physical examination findings and laboratory results. Counseling aims to change behavior to lower the risk of getting an STD, prevent its spread, and reinfection. Clinic staff will ask you to return to the clinic for a repeat testing, test results, start treatment, or for additional treatment. If the medicine is not available in the clinic, the provider will give you a prescription to purchase the medicine at a local pharmacy at your own cost.

Find a county clinic near you.

Field Services

The STD field services are an essential component of ADPH operating as a link between clinical services and individuals infected or at risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease. The field services team consists of well-trained Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS), supervisors, and managers working in the STD control program throughout the state. STD field staff serves as the front line of defense for intervening in the spread of STDs.

ADPH staff provides highly confidential counseling, follow-up, testing, and referrals for treatment of individuals diagnosed with or exposed to an STD. Field staff offer partner services, which include notification, screening, and treatment referral to clients diagnosed with STDs and their partners.

The field staff offers individualized and group STD education at local county health departments, schools, juvenile detention centers, community health fairs, local jails, teen centers, homeless shelters, and other locations throughout the state. These field staff also conduct organized community outreach screenings for syphilis and HIV to reach thousands at risk residents annually.

Contact a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) in your area.