Vermilion County's STD Clinic

Vermilion County IL Health Department

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome kills people.
HIV attacks the body's immune system.
People with AIDS are more likely to become ill from diseases that healthy people can usually just fight off.
There is no cure for AIDS.
It can take months, or even up to 10years before symptoms appear. If you think you don't have to worry about AIDS, consider the following: If you've had 2 sex partners in the last year, and each of them had 2 other sex partners the year before, and so on, for the last 9 years, it means you really were sleeping with the equivalent of about 512 people......Think about your risk...
Your risk is greatest if:

You have more than 1 sex partner
You don't know their sexual history
You share intravenous drug needles
You are a man who has sex with men
You are the sex partner of anyone who has, or practices, these behaviors
You are born to an infected mother

One half of all new HIV infections occur in people
UNDER THE AGE OF 25.

AIDS is spread by sexual contact...or contact with infected blood...or by sharing needles...or AIDS can be spread by an infected mother to her unborn baby duriing birth or breastfeeding.
You cannot get AIDS from casual contact. You will not get AIDS by: hugging someone, or shaking their hands, or by using the same glass someone else used, or the same fork or spoon, or from a mosquito bite.
If you have questions, don't wait, call us, at 217-431-2662,
ext 300, or contact us via email.

Our services are ALWAYS confidential. To make an appointment, call 1-800-510-6559, or 431-2662, ext 300. We offer free, confidential STD walk-in clinics 9:30 to 11am on Tuesdays and Fridays; for students, there are free, confidential walk-in clinics during the school year from 2:30 to 4pm every Tuesday afternoon.

If you have questions - ask us. We are here to help you.
For more information, visit Illinois Region 6 HIV site,
or call the Illinois HIV/AIDS/STD Hotline at 1-800-243-2437
For other HIV/AIDS resources. visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Don't wait and don't wonder.
Just call or email us and we will help you.

last updated 8/7/08

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