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Category: Sexual Health

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Finding the right condom for you 

The theme for our 2022 Sexual Health Week is breaking barriers. In order to break barriers around sexual health we need to educate, challenge stigma and empower people to take…

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Hard to reach? It’s time to change the language 

This Sexual Health Week we want to amplify the voices of those who face barriers as well as those who are working tirelessly to break barriers. GP Anne Connolly, a…

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Protected by PrEP – Improving health through harm reduction

Chad Morgan, a PrEP promotion specialist at Brook, talks about the work Brook is doing with communities in Lewisham to reduce HIV transmissions, and about the importance of harm reduction…

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Why I Prefer Promoting Sex Positivity in the Community Over Its Online Alternative

Rachel Gambling, a Health Promotion Specialist at our all age service in Southend, talks about her career progression from podcasting at university to doing outreach work with Brook, and about…

Tackling GBV and HIV: a joint approach

Raeena Hirve, Sexual and Reproductive Health Coordinator at Brook, discusses the links between Gender Based Violence and HIV and why work to prevent either must take both into account. [Content…

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Over the counter contraception is a step in the right direction

For World Contraception Day, Brook’s Head of Nursing explores what it means now that the progesterone only pill is available to purchase over the counter from pharmacies. Earlier this year…

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It’s a Sin: My experience of working through the AIDS crisis

As part of National HIV Testing Week, Brook’s Assistant Director of Operations Jackie Redding discusses the hit Channel 4 show and reflects on her own work as an HIV counsellor…

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Contraception and endometriosis: an arduous journey

In this guest blog, 27-year-old Bima Loxley compares the lengthy journey she went through to reach an endometriosis diagnosis to the challenge of finding a method of contraception that was…

Abortion pills save lives

For International Safe Abortion Day, Laura Hurley, Programme Advisor at the Safe Abortion Action Fund writes on why abortion regulations should be based on health needs rather than stigma and…

COVID-19: Why we must talk about sexual health

Brook’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Lisa Hallgarten, highlights some key steps you can take to protect your sexual and reproductive health during COVID-19, as well as Brook’s key…

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Online testing: a new way to look after your sexual health

Our first digitally-led service in partnership with SH:24 launches in Cornwall in December. In anticipation of this we hear from Alicia Thornton, Public Health Registrar, about how online testing works…

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No Health Without Mental Health

Brook’s Head of Innovation and Partnerships, Helen Corteen, shares her experience of the inextricable link between sexual and mental health.