A European research project aims to enable people to self-diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV and syphilis, their mobile phones.

But do not worry. You must not urinate or spit on the phone, despite what the tech blogs to say about these efforts.

The project "eSTI2, Tariq Sadiq, University of St George's head, London, England, recently received a grant of 6.5 million dollars to small chip that can test with which you develop, urine or saliva of blood sexually transmitted diseases The chip -. connect to mobile phones for the treatment - indeed the need to urinate, in some cases.

It is possible that a chip could question anyone tell whether positive or negative to have a venereal disease, particularly within 5 to 15 minutes, "said Sadiq.

"The process of diagnosis salts for people instead of people entering the clinics, he said. "We want to continue this process, for it was this huge burden of sexually transmitted diseases."

Despite the increasing efforts of other sexually transmitted diseases in general, he said, and by the stigma of testing - and the inconvenience of waiting for an appointment at a clinic - frightens many people will be tested .
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