Test before you treat: when a customer asks for an STI cure

When someone asks for something for discharge, burning, toilet infection or staph, the best help is a test and the right treatment, not another course that may not match the cause. Hand them a Discree card: a private test at home or a doctor by video, with nothing on their statement that says health.

Send these to a hospital today

• A possible HIV exposure in the last 72 hours: send them to a hospital emergency department or HIV clinic for PEP today. After sexual assault in Lagos, the Mirabel Centre at LASUTH, Ikeja.
• Pain low in the belly with fever, or pain during sex, in a woman: possible pelvic infection.
• A painful, swollen testicle.
• Any of these symptoms in pregnancy.
• A genital sore or ulcer: it needs examining and a swab.

Why a test beats a course from the shelf

• Gonorrhoea is now resistant to ciprofloxacin and many tablets sold over the counter, so symptoms fade while the infection stays and damages fertility.
• What customers call toilet infection or staph is usually thrush or bacterial vaginosis, sometimes an STI. They need different medicines, so a course for the wrong one fails and the customer comes back.
• Most chlamydia and much gonorrhoea cause no symptoms, so partners stay untreated and the infection returns.

What your customer gets

A nurse in plain clothes takes the sample at home, or a doctor talks to them by video first if they have symptoms. Gonorrhoea and chlamydia are tested by PCR. A doctor gives every result and treats what is found. No account, and no message that names a test. See Discree on Mezo.

What comes back to you

Nothing about any customer: sexual health is private, and we never send a letter or a name back. Your card carries your code so we know the pharmacy is sending people to care. No fee, credit or discount is paid per customer.