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Why COVID-19 must be included in safer sex messaging on college campuses

  • Written by Tamra Burns Loeb, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
imageLittle information is available to college students on stopping the spread of COVID-19 within an intimate relationship.DisobeyArt/iStock via Getty Images Plus

With college students back on campus, and COVID-19 with us for the foreseeable future, it has become increasingly clear that educators need to develop a new definition of safer sex.

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