Seaham cemetry,

Quite an ironic nickname for an MD, isn't it?

So Chlamydia , vs HIV

Let me see if I have this right,

For one the cure is a 10 day course of inexpensive antibiotics,

For the other there is no cure. But you can contain it by radically altering your diet, taking loads of expensive drugs and completely avoiding sick people.

If you leave one untreated you get itching, burning, inflammation, possible infertility, if you are a woman.

For the other, if you leave it untreated you get AIDS, the good news you have given us today is that AIDS does not kill. The bad news is that it increases the chances of death the way drunk driving does. An immune system impaired by HIV is unable to avoid TB or certain cancers the way a drunk driver is unable to avoid crashing into embankments or school buses. But the drinking doesn't kill you, the crash does right? :-D