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New Haven presents one of the most striking STD epidemiological contrasts in New England — a city where Yale University's world-class medical research infrastructure coexists with STD rates among the highest in Connecticut, concentrated in neighborhoods like Fair Haven, Newhallville, and the Hill that sit just miles from Yale-New Haven Hospital. The city's Black and Latino residents, who make up the majority of the population outside the Yale campus corridor, face chlamydia and gonorrhea rates that run multiples above the Connecticut state average, driven by longstanding structural inequities in healthcare access and economic opportunity. Yale's 14,000 graduate and professional students — including one of the largest medical and public health schools in the country — add a highly mobile, sexually active population whose screening behavior research suggests is inconsistent despite high health literacy. New Haven County's syphilis rates have risen sharply since 2018, part of a statewide trend that has hit urban cores hardest.