Young Australians to receive $10 to undergo Chlamydia test

The youth in Australia will be remunerated to get tested for Chlamydia. This is done because the health experts look for new ways to fight against the rising rates of the sexually-transmitted infection.

Youth who are in between 16 to 30 years of age and are sexually active will be paid $10 if they agree to participate in this test. The plan of this testing is a guide program which is running solely in the ACT.

However if it will be a success event then the program will be carried out nationwide. This was stated by Associate Professor Rhian Parker.

A Chlamydia is an infection which is usually easy to determine with antibiotics. It has no symptoms and if it is unnoticed and untreated for years it might result very badly.

Dr Parker has said that $10 is paid to each person for their test if it has shortened transmission of the infection then it would be money well used up. The longer-term effect of this disease can be shocking as well as per Dr Parker.

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With gonorrhea rates down to an all-time low, chlamydia has become the top reported STD in the U.S., the CDC's annual STD report shows.

About 2.8 million Americans get chlamydia each year, the CDC estimates. That's why the national health agency considers the 19% increase in reported cases since 2006 to be good news: It means more people are getting tested.

Chlamydia and gonorrhea

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.


• It is the most frequent bacterial STI in the United States, with more than 1 million reported cases and an estimated 2 million unreported cases per year.


Researchers question axing of chlamydia program

Australian researchers who are monitoring the relentless rise of Australia's most common notifiable infection are dismayed that the Federal Government has withdrawn their funding.

The incidence of chlamydia has increased four-fold in the past decade and a network of clinics has been trying to find out who is the most affected.

The Federal Government says the project was not intended to be permanent and its results will be used to develop a new system of monitoring chlamydia.

There are tens of thousands of new chlamydia cases reported in Australia every year. It is the most common cause of preventable infertility in Australia.

Screening leads to rise in rates of chlamydia

Rates of chlamydia are high among young men in south Scotland due to screening efforts, health experts believe.

Official figures show Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders have the highest level of positive tests among under-25s.

A total of 18% of those being checked were found to have the sexually transmitted infection.

Sexual health co-ordinator Fiona Gleghorn said the figures had to be taken in context.

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Shropshire has joined ten other NHS districts in the Midlands in the use of the peer to peer outreach supplier, Moo Moo Youth Marketing in the launch of a new Chlamydia screening programme.
Moo Moo Youth Marketing launched the service as part of an ongoing effort to support the NHS attempts to reduce the number of Chlamydia infections by early diagnosis and treatment. As one of the biggest outreach screening campaigns in the U.K., the Chlamydia screening programme is aimed at young people between the ages of 15 to 25 years old and aims to remove the stigmatism associated to health screening.