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Speaker 1: Cambridge Health Alliance Community Resource Officer Jason Centao is often

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Speaker 1: the bearer of bad news when it comes to statistics.

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Speaker 2: It's not popular information, but the STI rates are pretty

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Speaker 2: high in certain parts of Massachusetts, which.

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Speaker 1: Is why he goes out in the community to make

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Speaker 1: sure people know they have access to STI testing.

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Speaker 2: Even if they're not a patient ECHA. They can go

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Speaker 2: and get tested for free, confidentially, and there's no information

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Speaker 2: that has to go home. They will call you directly

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Speaker 2: or wherever they want that you want the results to go.

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Speaker 2: It's completely confidential.

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Speaker 1: CHA offered multiple types of SDI tests during a community

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Speaker 1: resource fair at Summerville's Central Library, an important step in

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Speaker 1: Centao's eyes towards a healthier future.

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Speaker 2: Sexual health is taboo here in many places. We try

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Speaker 2: to normalize it.

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Speaker 1: From Somerville. I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ, Boston's news radio