{"id":662,"date":"2012-07-01T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=662"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:05:42","slug":"chlamydia-how-effective-is-screening-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/chlamydia-how-effective-is-screening-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlamydia: How effective is screening young people?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sti.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2012\/06\/25\/sextrans-2011-050126.abstract?papetoc\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> published by the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\" target=\"_blank\">BMJ<\/a> shows that the UK&#8217;s national screening programme for chlamydia which started in 2000, and aimed to test all 16-24 year olds, has meant a significant decreased in the prevalence of the infection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/couple-talking-2-1-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7769\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/couple-talking-2-1-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/couple-talking-2-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/couple-talking-2-1-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/couple-talking-2-1-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/couple-talking-2-1-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2000, 4.5% of 16-24 year olds were found to have chlamydia when they were tested &#8211; this included testing people who were not showing any symptoms (asymptomatic).&nbsp; In 2010-11 the incidences of chlamydia were 28% lower.&nbsp; The national screening programme is thought to cover 35% of the 16-24 year olds in the UK.&nbsp; The study says that if this could increase to 45%, then a further reduction of 2.4% should be possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better2Know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/std-sti-testing\/chlamydia\">tests for Chlamydia<\/a> alongside gonorrhoea in all of our STD clinics across the UK.&nbsp; All you need to do is give a small sample of urine, and your results will be available just two days after the sample is received in the laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published by the BMJ shows that the UK&#8217;s national screening programme for chlamydia which started in 2000, and aimed to test all 16-24 year olds, has meant a significant decreased in the prevalence of the infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[3,4,20,14,19],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1246,1709,1128,2544,744,625,2552,628,597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}