To prevent chlamydial infection, attention must be paid to reducing risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Sexual transmission
- Promiscuity (sexual contact with relatively frequently changing different partners).
- Prostitution
- Men who have sex with men (MSM).
- Sexual contacts in the vacation country
- Unprotected coitus; insb for young girls coitus with older partners.
- Sexual practices with high risk of mucosal injury (e.g., unprotected anal intercourse).
- Swimming pools where the water is insufficiently chlorinated.
- Insufficient hygienic conditions
Medication
- Hormonal contraceptives
