Category Archives: Chlamydia

Got unhappy STD news? Break it with an e-card

Breaking up over e-mail is a social no-no. But sending an e-card telling someone to get tested for STDs may be a public health courtesy. Since 2004, a free Web site, inSpot.org has allowed users to anonymously notify their partners to get tested for STDs such as HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis. “It’s not like […]

Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland Urges Young Men In Argyll & Bute To Test For Chlamydia And Gonorrhea

A new campaign has just been launched encouraging young men in Argyll & Bute aged 16 – 24 to get tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea. The scheme, run by Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland and funded by NHS Highland, aims to reduce undiagnosed sexually transmitted infections (STIs) amongst young men because research suggests they are much […]

Chlamydia Is A Common Sexual Disease

SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH Dear Dr. Donohue — I just had my second pelvic exam. I am 21. The doctor told me he was going to check for infections as well as cancer, and I told him to go ahead. I have no symptoms of infection, like a discharge or any pain. It turns out […]

Worry Over AIDS Hides Rising STD Infections

Other sexually transmitted diseases don’t get the attention HIV does, which causes Dr. John Toney some distress. An estimated 19 million new infections occur each year, most of them not HIV. Almost half are in people 15- to 24 years old. Chlamydia diagnoses are skyrocketing. Syphilis, at an all-time low nine years ago, is increasing […]

CDC, National Chlamydia Coalition Partner To Raise Awareness, Testing Rates

The National Chlamydia Coalition is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase public awareness and screening efforts for chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports. According to CDC, there were 1.1 million recorded cases of chlamydia in 2007, although experts estimate that there […]

Chlamydia, the Silent STD That Can Cause Infertility

Chlamydia infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease, responsible for a record 1.1 million cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2007, and experts there estimate that twice that many cases go undetected. Left untreated, chlamydia can cause infertility or potentially fatal ectopic pregnancies. But many women aren’t even aware […]

Partner Notification Essential in Chlamydia, New Guidelines Say

Partner notification and treatment needs to be at the centre of chlamydia treatment programmes, new European guidelines urge. European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) guidance issued this week says that notification and management of partners of those with chlamydia should form an essential part of case management. Consideration should also be given to providing partners […]

One In Four Teenage Girls In U.S. Has Sexually Transmitted Disease, CDC Study Shows

A new CDC study estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States — or 3.2 million teenage girls — is infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis). The two […]