2. What is it?
• a very small parasitic bacterium that, like a virus, requires the
biochemical mechanisms of another cell in order to
reproduce. Bacteria of this type cause various diseases
including trachoma, psittacosis, and nonspecific urethritis
3. Target Population
• Adolescent girls 15-19 years of age and young women 20-24
years of age are the most commonly diagnosed with
chlamydia. So this is one of the most common diseases on
college campuses today.
4. Health Belief model
• Perceived susceptibility- One's opinion of
chances of getting a condition.
• Perceived Severity- One's opinion of how serious
a condition and its consequences are
I believe these components of the health belief
model are the most important to my target
audience. I believe a lot of young people just don’t
believe there is a high chance of getting any type of
STD, and they don’t understand the severity of
some of these diseases.
5. How to Protect Yourself
• Using a condom every time you have vaginal or anal sex.
• Using a condom to cover the penis during oral sex.
• Using a dam (a piece of thin, soft plastic or latex) to cover the
female genitals during oral sex or when rubbing female
genitals together.
• Not sharing sex toys.
6. What not to do
There are many things that you may do to increase your chances
of getting this disease which include
• Having any type of unprotected intercourse (oral, vaginal,
anal)
• Sharing sex toys
• Touching female parts without anything to cover them
7. Etiology
• This disease is caused by having unprotected sex of any kind. It
can also be caused by something as simple as touching the
vagina without a dam over it.
8. Symptoms
• burning feeling during urination.
• discharge from the penis or vagina.
• pain in the lower abdomen.
• painful sexual intercourse in women.
• pain in the testicles in men.
