Splendour in the Grass sex disease shock: Health experts predict a THOUSAND music fans at the event will have dangerous STI
- Health experts have revealed one thousand festival goers will test positive to STI
- Splendour in the Grass music fans will be able to take five-minute test weekend
- Chlamydia testing tent will encourage people to take free test at popular festival
- In return for the simple test, people can enjoy glitter station and ‘VIP’ toilets
Health experts have revealed a thousand music fans will test positive to a dangerous sex disease at Splendour in the Grass.
Of the 30,000 festival goers expected to attend the three-day New South Wales event, about one thousand of them will be carrying chlamydia.
The sexually transmitted disease doesn’t always show symptoms, with many people unaware they have the infection.
Health experts have revealed a thousand music fans will test positive to a dangerous sex disease at Splendour in the Grass (pictured)
Of the 30,000 festival goers expected to attend the three-day New South Wales event (pictured), about one thousand of them will be carrying chlamydia
Down To Test VIP tent will be erected at the festival encouraging concert-goers to take the free five-minute test to determine if they are infected or not.
The NSW Health run tent, which is working with Pash Consortium, will be the first, large scale STD testing station.
They are hoping to lure in Byron Bay punters with ‘squeaky clean’ toilets, phone charging stations, ice water, a glitter bar and a chill out lounge.
Music fans will simply have to ‘pee in a cup’ in the ‘luxury VIP toilets’ and supply their details to get access to the tent rife with perks.
Those taking part in the STI test will gain their results within a week via phone call for positive results or text for negative results.
Franklin John-Leader from Pash Consortium said they were aiming to eradicate the stigma around sexual disease testing.
Music fans will simply have to ‘pee in a cup’ in the ‘luxury VIP toilets’ and supply their details to get access to the tent rife with perks at the festival (left and right)
‘It’s as easy as peeing in a jar. People think it’s so complicated and cumbersome. But it’s simple and we want to normalise testing,’ he told Sydney Morning Herald.
‘We’re also expecting to give out thousands of free condoms.’
The tent will only determine whether participants have chlamydia, a disease which can lead to infertility, as it is the most common STI affecting one in 20 young people.
The STD tent follows several smaller testing stations held at other festivals where 71 out of 2500 people tested positive to chlamydia – a result which has almost doubled over the last decade.
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