EPT Chlamydia Patients Brochure
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if you have sex before waiting for the Bronx medicine to work on you and your Morrisania: partner(s). Mon–Fri 8:30-4:00, Sat 8:30-12:00 • Get retested for Chlamydia. Get retested 1309 Fulton Avenue, 2nd Floor for Chlamydia three months after taking (East 169 Street off Third Avenue) Stopping the Spread this medicine to make sure you did not TRAVEL: 55/15 bus to 169th/Third Ave. get the infection again. of Chlamydia: Brooklyn If you have any questions or concerns about Crown Heights: EPT or azithromycin, please call 311 or Mon–Fri 8:30-4:00 contact your doctor or nurse. 1218 Prospect Place, 2nd Floor For more information about Chlamydia and (at Troy Avenue) How you can help other STDs, you can visit our website at TRAVEL: 3/4 trains to Utica www.nyc.gov/health/ept Fort Greene: Mon–Fri 8:30-4:00, Sat 8:30-1:00 NYC DOHMH Bureau of STD 295 Flatbush Avenue Ext., 2nd Floor Control Brooklyn, NY 11201 TRAVEL: 2/3/5 trains to Nevins, N/R/D to www.nyc.gov/std DeKalb STD Clinics Queens Manhattan Jamaica: Central Harlem: Mon–Fri 8:30-4:00, Sat 8:30-12:00 Expedited Partner Therapy Mon–Fri 8:30-4:00, Sat 8:30-12:00 90-37 Parsons Blvd., 1st Floor (EPT) 2238 Fifth Avenue (137th Street) (off Jamaica Ave.) TRAVEL: 2 train to 135th Street TRAVEL: E/Z/J train to Parsons Blvd. Chelsea: Corona: Monday-Friday 8:30-4:00, Sat 8:30-12:00 Tue & Fri 8:30-4:00 303 Ninth Avenue (28th Street) 34-33 Junction Blvd. (Roosevelt/Northern) TRAVEL: C/E trains to 23rd Street, 1 train TRAVEL: 7 train to Junction Blvd., 72 bus to to 28th Street 35th Ave. West Harlem: Staten Island Mon–Fri 8:30-4:00 Richmond: 21 Old Broadway, 2nd Floor Thur 8:30-4:00 (off 126th Street between Broadway and 51 Stuyvesant Place (Wall Street) Amsterdam) TRAVEL: 1 train to 125th Street January 2010 Important information about What is Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)? A woman with PID may have: your sexual health. A new law was passed in New York City • Bad smelling discharge from the vagina and New York State that allows doctors and • Pain during sex and when they pee Please read very carefully. nurses to give medicine or a prescription to • Bleeding between periods people diagnosed with Chlamydia so that • Pain in the lower belly Why am I getting extra medicine or they can give it to their sex partner(s). This A woman who thinks she has PID should prescription(s) for extra medicine? is called Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT). see a doctor or go to a clinic as soon as You have been diagnosed and treated for possible. Chlamydia, a disease that is transmitted by What should I tell my sex partner(s)? having sex. Your doctor or nurse has given Telling someone they may have a sexually What if my sex partner is pregnant, or you a prescription or medicine to give to transmitted disease (STD) can be hard, but thinks she may be pregnant? each of your sex partner(s) so that they can it is the right thing to do. Tell your sex If your sex partner is pregnant, it is okay for be treated as soon as possible. Chlamydia partner(s) that the medicine or prescription her to take this medicine. Azithromycin will infections often have no symptoms, but if you are giving them is to treat Chlamydia, not hurt the baby. But she should see a left untreated Chlamydia can spread and and they should take the medicine because doctor or nurse as soon as possible because cause serious problems in both women and they may be infected too. Ask them to read Chlamydia can be passed on from a mother men. Chlamydia can also increase a person’s the information that comes with the to her baby during pregnancy, and can cause chance of getting or spreading HIV so it’s medicine and to visit a doctor or nurse to health problems for the baby. She should important that your sex partner(s) be get checked for other STDs such as tell her doctor that she was given medicine treated. If you are treated and your partner(s) syphilis, gonorrhea and HIV. because her sex partner has Chlamydia. is not, he or she can give you Chlamydia What is the cure for Chlamydia? again. What is Chlamydia? Chlamydia is the most common STD Chlamydia is easily treated with one dose of an antibiotic called azithromycin (a-zith-row- Who should I give the extra medicine or caused by bacteria that both men and mice-in). Azithromycin is also called Zithromax prescription to? women can get. It is spread through having or Zmax. This medicine treats Chlamydia but The medicine or prescription that the doctor any kind of sex (vaginal, oral or anal) with a does not treat other STDs like syphilis or or nurse gave you should be given to each person who has Chlamydia. gonorrhea. This is why it is important for your of your sex partner(s). Chlamydia that is not treated can lead to sexual partner(s) to see a doctor, nurse or go to a clinic to get a full STD exam, even if he What if I don’t give out all of the extra infertility (not being able to have children) in or she takes the medicine. medicine to my sex partner(s)? both men and women. In men, untreated If you are unable to give all of the extra Chlamydia can lead to infection and pain in What should I do after taking this medicine to one or more of your sex the testicles (balls). In women, untreated medicine? Chlamydia can lead to chronic belly pain, partner(s), please return the extra medicine to • Do not have sex (vaginal, oral or anal) ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy in the the doctor, nurse or clinic who gave it to for at least seven days until both you fallopian tubes), and Pelvic Inflammatory you. and any of your sex partner(s) have Disease (PID), which is inflammation of the Do not save the medicine to take at another taken this medicine. It takes seven upper reproductive tract. time or share the medicine with anyone days for this medicine to cure who is not your sex partner. Chlamydia. You can get Chlamydia again.