Table 3.

Characteristics of sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics, 50 US states and Washington, DC, 2017 (N = 4079)^a

Characteristics	No. (%)
Type of clinic
Local health department	2530 (62.0)
Family planning clinic	696 (17.1)
Community health center	318 (7.8)
School-based clinic	148 (3.6)
State health department–sponsored clinic	138 (3.4)
Hospital-sponsored clinic	88 (2.2)
AIDS service organization	84 (2.1)
University-sponsored clinic	48 (1.2)
Jail, juvenile detention, probation/parole clinic	26 (0.6)
Other	3 (0.1)
Regionb
South	1753 (43.0)
Midwest	889 (21.8)
West	866 (21.2)
Northeast	571 (14.0)
Clinic has 340B fundingc	3035 (74.4)
Clinic is part of a group of STD clinics	1754 (43.0)
No. of clinics in an STD clinic group, mean (range) [SD]	4.33 (2-35) [4.73]
Counties without an STD clinic (n = 51)	1098 (35.1)
States with an STD clinic in every county (n = 3129)	13 (25.5)

^aBased on a 2-phased, multilevel, online search from September 2014 through March 2015 and from May through October 2017. An STD clinic was defined as any publicly funded provider of STD services identified by or as the state health department or local health department.

^bRegions determined by using US Census 2014 data.²⁴ South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington State, and Wyoming. Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

^cClinic is defined as an STD clinic and funded by the national 340B drug pricing program.²²