Frequently Asked Questions
How is chlamydia treated?
How common is HPV?
Can HPV affect a woman during pregnancy?
How to lower your chances of HPV?
- Antibiotics are used to treat/ cure chlamydia
- After taking the antibiotics, persons infected should not have sex for at least seven days
- Repeated infection of chlamydia is common
How common is HPV?
- 79 million men and women have HPV and 14 million more men and women will become infected with HPV each year.
- Most Americans will contract at least one or more strands in their lifetime
Can HPV affect a woman during pregnancy?
- Normally pregnant women will not experience any complications during pregnancy
- In very rare cases genital warts can grow during pregnancy
- HPV can cause some women to develop cervical cell changes
How to lower your chances of HPV?
- Two vaccines are available for boys/men and girls/women between the age of 11 and 26 to help prevent HPV
- Health care providers recommend get the vaccine between 11 and 12 years old
- Cervarix and Gardasil is given to girls, Gardasil is given to boys (given in three doses over a six month period)
- Condoms do not prevent from contracting HPV, but can lower your chances
- Being in a faithful relationship
Is HPV curable?
What is the treatment for gonorrhea?
What else should those with STDs do?
- There is no cure for the virus, but there are treatments for any complications caused from HPV
What is the treatment for gonorrhea?
- Gonorrhea is curable!
- It is important to take all of the medication prescribed to cure gonorrhea.
- Although medication will stop the infection, it will not repair any permanent damage done by the disease.
- Successful treatment of gonorrhea is becoming more difficult.
- If a person’s symptoms continue for more than a few days after receiving treatment, he or she should return to a health care provider to be reevaluated.
- Recently, there have been more cases of Gonorrhea that have been found to be untreatable by medication. This strain of Gonorrhea is increasing.
What else should those with STDs do?
- If a person has been diagnosed with an STD, he or she should tell all recent anal, vaginal, or oral sex partners so they can see a health care provider and be treated.
- This will reduce the risk that the sex partners will develop serious complications from the STDs and will also reduce the person’s risk of becoming re-infected.
- A person with an STD and all of his or her sex partners must avoid having sex until they have completed their treatment for their STD and until they no longer have symptoms.