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Staying Healthy
Chlamydia Screening
Local Initiatives
The YorSexualHealth website has now launched, providing lots of
information on sexual health and the specialist free and confidential
sexual health services provided across North Yorkshire and York.
Information is available on STIs, contraception, including emergency
contraception, Chlamydia screening, HIV testing, where to get tested and
contact details, opening times of family planning clinics. Check the
website at
www.yorsexualhealth.org.uk.
To
request a testing kit please visit
www.yorsexualhealth.org.uk The website also links to other popular
internet sites such as Facebook.
A texting service is now available for young people to request a postal
testing kit. Text ‘TEST’ to 80010 followed by name, address and age.
Yorscreen has recruited a Project Support Officer who will lead a team
of peer educators. Their role will be to increase screening availability
and uptake in non-healthcare settings. Young people’s focus groups have
been established to help make sexual health services more young people
focused and the peer educators will be going into pubs, clubs and
education settings to screen.
New sexual health drop-ins will be starting in Selby, York University
and Sherburn in Elmet, where young people in these areas can get screened
more easily.
Mail shots: sending of a letter and testing kit to young people aged
18-24 in two GP practices to offer the opportunity to test. If this
pilot is successful, the project will expand throughout the region.
