All right, so in this lecture, we're going to be talking chlamydia and goneria.

Now, chlamydia and goneria are the most common STDs that you are going to be

diagnosing.

So it's important to know who it affects, how to screen,

how to diagnose, and how to treat. Now, very important, we know that Klamydia and

gonorrhea, for the most most part are going to cause problems for the woman

not so much the man now the reason why we're screening for males is because we

don't want transmission to females and the problems

are the complications that can happen with the female include infertility, PID

which is pelvic inflammatory disease, they can have chronic pain, they can have pregnancy

complications like a topic, spontaneous abortion, and premature rupture of

membranes. So really the main reason to screen males and to treat is really to prevent transmission to the female.

Now, one thing to keep in mind is when a mother has chlamydia, has gonorrhea, they become pregnant, and you have a child born

vaginally in an untreated mother, this can also present with complications to the baby. Now things that can happen, we can have

pneumonia, we can have conjunctivitis, we can have pharyngeitis, and we can have gonococ gone on coxemia.

Now risk factors for chlamydia, risk factors for gunnerie

are going to be multiple sex partners,

recent new sex partner within the last 60 days,

not using condoms, prior STDs, and having a history of drug use.

Now, the way we screen, we're going to screen every single year annually.

We're going to screen women who are under the age of 25

universally. This means every woman under 25 gets screened every single year. After 25,

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