In the case of rape, the person can be treated prophylacticly with antibiotics. An option for treating partners of patients (index cases) diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea is patient-delivered partner therapy, which is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of index cases by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to his/her partner without the health care provider first examining the partner.
Sexually transmitted infection
Interstitial cystitis
Vertically transmitted infection
Neurodegenerative disease
Blood-borne disease
Environmental disease
Secondary trauma
Psychogenic disease