| Receiving medication | | | | |
| Q1: Would you take this medicine? | 24 (88.9) | 3 (11.1) | – | – |
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| Yes, if it is recommended by doctors and nurses it is OK. | | | | |
| Yes, if it is going to help cure it. If you are going to be sexually active with people you shouldn’t walk around with an STD. | | | | |
| No, I would want to get checked first. | | | | |
| Q2: Is it OK for a sex partner to give you prescription medicine for an STD? | 17 (63.0) | 9 (33.3) | – | 1 (3.7) |
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| Is it legal? That is going to be my first question. | | | | |
| Yes, as long as it is labelled and says what it is. | | | | |
| No, because it might not be right for my body. The doctor should give it. | | | | |
| Q3: Would you trust your sex partner giving you medicine? | 9 (33.3) | 17 (55.6) | 1 (3.7) | – |
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| No… once you find out that your partner has an STD, the trust factor is gone. I wouldn’t trust him to give me medicine. | | | | |
| No, I want to know exactly what I am taking. | | | | |
| It depends on the situation. | | | | |
| Delivering medication | | | | |
| Q4: Would you take medicine to a partner if you were in this situation? | 13 (48.1) | 13 (48.1) | 1 (3.7) | – |
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| Yes, it is a cure. It’s free. If there was a chance they had it. | | | | |
| It depends on how long I had been with that partner. | | | | |
| No, I would want them to get tested to make sure they need the medicine. | | | | |
| Q5: If your partner didn’t take the medication would you have sex with them? | 2 (7.4) | 25 (92.6) | – | – |
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| No, I don’t want to be re-infected. | | | | |
| No, because they can give me chlamydia again. And, I feel like if they were really in love with you, they would do it to help themselves. | | | | |
| No, because if I am infected then they probably are too and what is the point of taking the medicine only to get re-infected. | | | | |
| Q6: If you had sex with more than one person, would you give medicine to everyone you had sex with? | 16 (59.3) | 11 (40.9) | – | – |
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| No, it is better to send them to the clinic. | | | | |
| Yes, if I had enough. | | | | |
| No, I want them to get tested before they take any medications. | | | | |
| Q7: If you decided not to tell your sex partner that you had an STD, would you have someone else tell them for you? | 12 (44.4) | 15 (51.9) | – | – |
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| No, I would have to do it. | | | | |
| Yes, a friend, close friend or brother or sister. | | | | |
| Yes, a physician. | | | | |