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Persons in rural communities experience barriers to preventative STI services, including screening. We calculated aggregated annual national rural and urban chlamydia and gonorrhea case rates for 2016-2022 and found rates were consistently higher among urban counties. Trends in both urban and rural case rates followed a similar trajectory over time.
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