According to researchers, despite the fact that chlamydia, a common sexually transmitted disease, with few symptoms can lead to infertility, less than half of vulnerable women in America are getting screened for it.

U. S. Centress for Disease Control and Prevention reports that screening rates spiked from 25% in 2000 to nearly 42% in 2007, despite the fact there are still far too few women being screened.

Chlamydia trachomatis infection, the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, reports an estimated 2.8 million new cases each year, with 1.1-million Chlamydia cases in 2007, more than half in females aged 15 to 25-years.

Causing few or no symptoms, if left untreated and no antibiotics are taken, can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, chronic pain and ectopic pregnancy
(pregnancy outside the uterus) that can kill mother or the baby.

Both women and men alike can get chlamydia infection, re-infecting one another if only one sexual partner gets treated, and it can make men sterile also, though rarely. As well, it can be passed on to a newborn, causing pneumonia and conjunctivitis or the pink eye.

All sexually active women 25 or younger, older women with new sex partners or multiple sex partners, including all pregnant women are asked to get yearly testings for Chlamydia.