Sexually active young people are at high risk of getting chlamydia for behavioral, biological, and cultural reasons. It is a very common STD, especially among young people. Sexually active people can get chlamydia through vaginal, anal, or oral sex without a condom with a partner who has chlamydia. People treated for chlamydia can get the infection again if they have sex with a person with chlamydia. 13 However, sexual abuse should be a consideration among young children with vaginal, urethral, or rectal infection beyond the neonatal period. 9-12 Rectal or genital infection can persist one year or longer in infants infected at birth. This can cause ophthalmia neonatorum (conjunctivitis) or pneumonia in some infants. Pregnant people can give chlamydia to their baby during childbirth. Semen does not have to be present to get or spread the infection. 7.8 How do people get chlamydia?Ĭhlamydia spreads through vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone with the infection. 6,7 Among MSM screened for pharyngeal chlamydial infection, positivity has ranges from 0.5% to 2.3%. Among MSM screened for rectal chlamydial infection, positivity ranges from 3.0% to 10.5%. In 2020, chlamydia rates for African Americans/Blacks were six times that of Whites. 5ĭisparities persist among racial and ethnic minority groups. 3 Estimates show that 1 in 20 sexually active young women aged 14-24 years has chlamydia. Two-thirds of new chlamydial infections occur among youth aged 15-24 years. Chlamydia is most common among young people. Most people with the infection have no symptoms and do not seek testing.
4 It is difficult to account for many cases of chlamydia. 3 Chlamydia is also the most frequently reported bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States.
1,2 How common is chlamydia?ĬDC estimates that there were four million chlamydial infections in 2018. LGV is the cause of recent proctitis outbreaks among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) worldwide. Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is another type of STD caused by C. It can cause cervicitis, urethritis, and proctitis. What is chlamydia?Ĭhlamydia is a common STD caused by infection with Chlamydia trachomatis. They include testing and treatment recommendations and citations, so the reader can research the topic more in depth. Note: “McInturff, Steve Book, Delaware O.Detailed fact sheets are for healthcare providers and others with specific questions about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Photo strip, undated, 35 x 27 mm, provenance: US, (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions) Photograph, 1951, 121 x 83 mm, note: “1951” “Davis & J.C.” (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions) Photograph, Undated, 96 x 67 mm (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions) Cabinet card, circa 1880, 167 x 109 mm, provenance: US, The book, Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s (5 Continents Editions), is available online. When we see them as connected, we feel more whole, and that’s what love is about for many of us anyway. Seeing ourselves in the past is as much about being certain of our present and, dare I say, our future.
What do images of men in love during a time when it was illegal tell us? What are we looking for in the faces of these people who dared to challenge the mores of their time to seek solace together? Flipping through the book, it wasn’t that I felt that I learned a great deal about being LGBTQ, but what gave me comfort was the feeling that we’re not going anywhere. While the majority of the images hail from the United States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2,800 photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s, hundreds of images tell the story of love and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. Hunter” (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions)Ī beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (1850–1950) is part of a new book that offers a visual glimpse of what life may have been like for those men, who went against the law to find love in one another’s arms. Postcard, circa 1910, 90 x 141 mm, note on front: “E.