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Published 11:49 18 Feb 2014 GMT
Updated 14:52 19 Dec 2014 GMT

The 'Facebook for STI's' shares results for HIV, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, hepatitis C antibody, as well as the HPV and hepatitis A vaccines, and can send them to your chosen contact online or by text message. Dr Jeffrey Klausner, Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA and advisor to Hula, says that the app could lead to a decline in the number of sexually transmitted diseases contracted each year.
"Qpid.me is the type of common sense advance that captures the opportunity...to mobilize health information and the individual's need for timely information, in this case sexual health information. Such information may lead to a healthier and even more importantly, more honest successful sexual encounter. That would be revolutionary."
With just under 5,000 sexual transmitted infections reported to the HSPC in Ireland in the first half of 2013, regular testing is vitally important so if you're due a check-up, click here.
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