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Who should be tested for STDs ?
Written by Sexual Health Shanghai   

 

Note: Your doctor may recommend additional STD tests based on your sexual history, signs, symptoms, etc.

 

Population

Recommendations

 

Sexually active women <= 25 years

  • Chlamydia testing every year

Sexually active men or women, who are not in a long term, mutually monogamous relationship

  • Hepatitis B vaccination
  • Annual HIV testing
  • Chlamydia, as recommended by your health care provider

All men who have sex with men (MSM)

  • Hepatitis A vaccination
  • Hepatitis B vaccination

Sexually active men who have sex with men (MSM), who are not in a long term, mutually monogamous relationship

  • Hepatitis A vaccination
  • Hepatitis B vaccination

At least once every year:

  • HIV
  • Syphilis
  • Chlamydia
  • Gonorrhea

Pregnant women

  • Chlamydia, at first prenatal visit
  • Syphilis, at first prenatal visit
  • HIV, as early as possible in the pregnancy
  • Hepatitis B, during an early prenatal visit
  • Hepatitis C, as recommended by your health care provider
  • Gonorrhea, as recommended by your health care provider

Any person seeking STD evaluation or treatments

  • Testing for HIV
  • Hepatitis B vaccination
  • Testing for Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, as recommended by your health care provider
 
 
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