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Prevention can include to abstain from vaginal, anal, and oral sexual intercourse. Another way is to in a long term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and is known to be uninfected. Male and women contraceptions such as condoms can be used during intercourse. Talk to your partners and ask about any infections they might have had before or if they have ever had any. Limit your partners and get screenings frequently.

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Long Term Effects include:
- infertility in men and women
- infections that spreads to the joints and other areas of of the body (septic arthritis)
- increased risk of HIV/AIDS
- complication in babies

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Untreated gonorrhea can cause miscarriages. This STI also can cause the baby to be premature or have low birth weight, premature rupture of membranes, and chorioamnionitis. Gonorrhea can also infect an infant during delivery as the infant passes through the birth canal. Newborns are also likely to develop eye infections if gonorrhea is untreated. The eye infections can also cause permanent damage to the eyes of the newborns.

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Men and women are tested by urine samples or swabs are used to swipe the throat or the rectum. A swab can also can be used to collect samples from a males urthera or women's cervix. Normally, gonorrhea is treated with different antibiotics. 500 mg of Ceftriaxone is injected. Oral azithromycin (zithromax) is also given to treat gonorrhea. Those two medications are the most used to treat this STI. Azithromycin or Doxycycline are given to take once or twice a day. After a couple of days, many women and men feel relief with their symptoms. Sexual intercourse is usually declined by doctors until the seven days are over and the medication is finished being taken. Doctors will do a follow up or be retested three months after after treatment.

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Symptoms can vary in this STI. Men and women can experience painful urination. They both also can have abnormal and heavy discharge. Women can experience heavy bleeding during their period cycles or after sexual intercourse. Men can experience pain and swelling in the testicles and also experience the pain and itching in the rectum. Women, however, can experience pain in the lower abdomen and pelvis. Some other symptoms of gonorrhea include sore throat, fever, sensitivity to light or pain in the eyes, or septic arthritis in the joints. In some cases, men and women do not experience any symptoms, which they tend to be asymptomatic carriers. They still carry the STI and can still spread it; however, they do not experience the symptoms.

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Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that infects both males and females. If it is untreated, it may cause infertility. This STI is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.