Though there are many ways of testing for STDs they are very inconvenient to many. This is do partially to the travel and hassle of going to a care center of some kind for a test. Why haven't companies looked into the home market with self/partner testing kits. They didn't even have to be 90+% accurate for consumers to be interested. It has been a while since I did serious scientific research in this area but isn't very possible to find a couple of chemical indicators that test for a few common STDs? It would reduce the hassle of tests and keep quite a few people from aquiring STDs.

My question for discussion is:

Why are the only available tests for STDs very combersome, is there not a more efficient testing method that could be performed at home that is comercially viable?

[This message has been edited by Mr. McBee III (edited 11-30-2006).]

Didnt they have home kits at one point that you could mail away?

quote:Originally posted by SilentMind:

Didnt they have home kits at one point that you could mail away?

I thought there was, yet they were extremely sketchy and imprecise. Plus, they were supposedly VERY cumbersome and prone to false positives.