Guy’s and St Thomas’ new community sexual health centre has treated almost 20% more patients since moving from a hospital clinic 12 months ago. Burrell Street in Southwark is the first NHS sexual health clinic in London to open seven days a week – it replaced the Lydia Clinic at St Thomas’ in December 2012. There were 24,980 attendances at Burrell Street from January to … [Read more...]
Real-time access to Post-Exposure Prophylaxis [PEP]
PEP should be taken as soon as possible and it is only effective if it is taken in the first 72 hours following exposure to HIV. Like emergency contraception, access to PEP requires real-time information that is location specific. SXT Health CIC is running a campaign to sign up UK providers to enable real-time access to post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) following sexual exposure … [Read more...]