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Five comparable schools with 5063 students enrolled served as wait-listed controls.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Eight urban public high schools in Louisiana.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Annually, 52% to 65% of all enrolled students participated; among those enrolled in schools for \u22652 years, 83.4% of students were tested at least once.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Intervention.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Education of all students; counseling and treatment of infected students with oral single-dose antibiotic therapy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Main Outcome Measure.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and gonorrhea infection.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>At first test, 286 (11.5%) of 2497 girls and 143 (6.2%) of 2308 boys were infected with chlamydia, and 48 (2.5%) of 1883 girls and 19 (1.2%) of 1628 boys had gonorrhea. Over 90% of infections were asymptomatic. With repeated testing, chlamydia prevalence among boys dropped to half the rate of comparison schools (3.2% vs 6.4%). Among girls chlamydia prevalence declined only slightly (10.3% vs 11.9% in comparison schools).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion.<\/jats:title><jats:p>There are high rates of asymptomatic sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the general urban school population. Repeated screening and treatment are associated with declines in chlamydia prevalence among boys. 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