California Family Health Council, Inc.

Seventy-five percent of women and fifty percent of men with chlamydia have no noticeable symptoms of infection and are unaware that they are infected. When left untreated, women with chlamydia infections can develop serious complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), chronic pelvic pain, ectopic (tubal) pregnancy, and even infertility.

Collaborations Around the State

The Infertility Prevention Project is a nationwide program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We, at the California Family Health Council, work in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Sexually Transmitted Disease Program, the San Francisco STD Prevention and Control Program, and the California STD Control Branch to manage this project in California.

Reaching Our Goals

The overarching goal of this project is to reduce the prevalence of chlamydia and its resulting complications through innovative surveillance, clinical, laboratory and epidemiological activities.

We develop and implement a wide variety of activities to assist and support our Title X Delegate Agencies. Some of our activities include:

• Designing innovative screening and outreach programs
• Performing clinical research studies
• Providing on-site evaluations of Delegate Agencies' chlamydia prevention and control programs
• Offering technical assistance to our agencies
• Distributing chlamydia medication for patient-delivered partner therapy
• Publishing the Chlamydia Currents Newsletter annually which provides up-to-date information for clinical staff
• Sponsoring workshops and exhibits at health conference