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What are STI’s
Anyone that has unprotected sex can be infected with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). STI’s can be passed on through sexual foreplay, vaginal/anal/oral sex and sharing sex toys.
Most conditions vary in their symptoms, and some show no outward symptoms at all. You should visit your doctor or local genitor-urinary medicine (GUM) clinic if you are worried or would like specialist advice.
The easiest and most effective precaution to take against most STD’s is using barrier protection such as a condom or a dental dam.
Free condoms and free male and female Chlamydia tests are available at the ARC (ground floor of the Guild).
Referrals
If you are concerned about anything or want some advice please contact the appropriate contact:
- For information or to book a sexual health screening - www.condomessentialwear.co.uk
- For 24 hour help and advice call The Sexual Health Line on 0800 567 123
Free check up’s and advice:
- Whittal Street Clinic, Whittall Street, Birmingham B4 6DH - 0121 237 5700 http:/www.bstreetwise.info
- Birmingham Chest Clinic, Sexual Health Clinic (The Drake Unit) Wednesday Walk-in Clinic 9:30am till 4:20pm
Address: 151 Great Charles Street, Queensway, Birmingham B3 3HX
Tel: 0121 424 1950
Visit: www.sexualhealthbirmingham.co.uk
Email sexualhealth.direct@heartofengland.nhs.uk
For under 25’s – contraception, pregnancy testing and advice:
Brook, 59-65 John Bright Street, Birmingham B1 1BL, 0121 643 5341 – www.brook.org.uk
Statistics
Sexual Health is an important issue for everyone. Over recent years it has become a greater issue for the younger generations – take a look at the worrying facts below:
Student stats
- STI diagnoses between 1996 and 2005 increased by 60% Young people in Britain have the worst sexual health in Western Europe
- At least 25,000 people in the UK have contracted HIV and are unaware of their condition
- 15% of lesbian women, and 7% of non lesbian women never have a routine smear test.
Omnibus Survey 2007/2008 for the Office of National Statistics
- Only 38% of men between 16-69 and 43% of women between 16-49 always use a condom during sexual intercourse
- 44% of women between 16-19 don’t use any form of contraception during sexual intercourse
- 20% of men 16-69 and 17% of women 16-49 who have multiple sexual partners, never use a condom during sexual intercourse
- 8% of all those surveyed say that their main source of information for learning about sexual health came from their school or college
- Only 33% of women between 16-29 have had a Chlamydia test
- Only 6% of men between 16-69 and 17% of women between 16-49 have tests for STI’s when they change their partners
- 19% of men and 24% of women between 16-24, classified both Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia as a Sexually Transmitted Infection.
- Over the past decade there has been a substantial increase in diagnoses of most Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) in the UK, and reports of two of the most common STDs have shown massive rises. Cases of uncomplicated gonorrhea increased by 42% between 1998 and 2007, while genital Chlamydia increased by 150%. Chlamydia has been the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease since 2001, overtaking genital warts. This is the first time that a bacterial infection has held this title.
- Between 1998 and 2007, diagnoses of genital herpes and genital warts rose by 51% and 28% respectively. The introduction of a vaccine against HPV, the main cause of genital warts (and cervical cancer), offers new hope for reducing the number of infections.
Figures from the Health Protection Agency report: UK HIV New Diagnoses, August 2008
The number of people living with HIV in the UK has trebled in the last 10 years.
- More than 80,000 people living with HIV in the UK
- One in three people with HIV are undiagnosed
- One in every 360 pregnant women in the UK is HIV positive
New HIV cases in 2007:
- 7,700 new diagnoses in the UK in 2007
- 2,700 new diagnoses among men who have sex with men
- 3,500 new diagnoses among people from black and minority ethnic communities
- In 2007, as reported to end June 2008, there were 536 new HIV diagnoses in the West Midlands. The 2007 figure represents a four fold increase on the 120 new diagnoses in 1998
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