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  • What is chlamydia?
  • What effect does chlamydia have on you?
  • How do you get chlamydia?
  • What are the symptoms?
  • What do I do if my partner or I have symptoms?
  • Can chlamydia be prevented?
  • What if I'm pregnant?
• Screening for chlamydia
  • Who will be offered screening?
  • What if I am under 16?
  • What happens if I am 25 and over?
• Where can I get tested?
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  • What does the test involve?
  • What will happen if I don't want to take the test?
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  • What happens after I've done the test?
  • When will I get my results?
  • How will I be contacted?
  • What does it mean if the test result is negative?
  • What happens if the test result is positive?
  • If I have chlamydia, will my partner have it too?
  • How do I tell my partner?
• Treatment
  • What is the treatment?
  • Where can I get treated?
  • What can happen if I don't get treated?
  • Will I ever need to have another test?
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Welcome to ruClear

About Chlamydia

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the UK. It’s common in young men and women under 25 years of age. You don’t need to have had lots of sexual partners to be at risk.

The ruClear? website is here to help you find out about about chlamydia, how to get tested and the treatment. Have a look around our site to find out everything you need to know.

 So what's it all about? 

The Screening Programme

Most people with chlamydia have no symptoms, so they may not know they have the infection. If left untreated chlamydia can spread to other parts of the body and this can lead to long term health problems.

The ruClear? chlamydia screening programme provides lots of different venues for men and women under 25 to get tested for chlamydia.

If you’re under 25 and have had sex, you can easily get access to testing in a range of places that are convenient to you-the CONFIDENTIAL test and any treatment you might need is FREE.

The National Chlamydia Screening Programme has discovered that 1 in 10 young people under the age of 25 who have had a test are infected.