The Undiagnosed STDs Cases

How the study went on to diagnose chlamydia among young girls

In June of 2014, around 400,000 Americans might have the STD chlamydia, but they do not know that they have it; this is according to a new research of Undiagnosed STDs . There were government reports and they have estimated nearly 1.8M people in the US have chlamydia, however, only 1.4M of infected people has been recorded. Women, especially those who are still young may have a higher probability of having STDs. There are no signs about the infections and that is in accordance with the US National Center for HIV or AIDS, STDs, TB prevention and Hepatitis according to the news.

The researchers have checked thoroughly the data coming from the National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007-2012. They have discovered that 1.7% of men & women aged 14-39 years old have chlamydia that works out around 1.8M infections in the US. On the other hand, around 1.4M chlamydia infections were reported yearly. Meaning there were a lot of Undiagnosed STDs- that says that a lot of chlamydia infections remained undetected according to the researchers. The infection rate of chlamydia is quite high among the sexually active women aged 14-19. This is around 6.4%. The rate of sexually active boys on the other had within the same group is around 2.4% only. 

The study has discovered some dissimilarity. For instance, the rate of the sexually active black teen girls is around 6.8; this is when compared with the 3.2% of the sexually active white teens. The findings do show the essence of going through the screening in all sexually active teen girls to make sure that they will be diagnosed and they will get the treatment that they need if they possibly have chlamydia. The researchers also added that the racial differences they have revealed show that there is a greater need for interventions, especially among black teen girls.

 Understanding Chlamydia

Chlamydia is a very typical STD type and this can infect men & women regardless of the age. It may bring serious to lifelong damage to the reproductive system, thus it can make it hard for women to get pregnant later on in life. Chlamydia may also bring a possible ectopic pregnancy in women.

How it can affect others?

Chlamydia is spreadable and this can be passed on from one person to another, though any form of sexual intercourse with another person with chlamydia as well. If your sexual partner is a male, then you can still get chlamydia even if does not ejaculate. Therefore you need to ensure active STD Testing as many times as you can. If you have not had chlamydia or you have been treated in the past for it, you can still get infected again if you will go on with unprotected sex with someone who has it. If you are pregnant, you can pass on the chlamydia to your baby during child delivery.

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