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Examining young people’s attitudes to condoms and contraception

Brook recently surveyed over 2,000 young people to get a better understanding of their attitudes, behaviours and choices surrounding the use of condoms and contraception. On World Contraception Day, Research…

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Rise in teen conception rates signals a warning against complacency

Alison Hadley is Director of the Teenage Pregnancy Knowledge Exchange at the University of Bedfordshire and Chair of the Sex Education Forum. In this blog, she explains why the slight…

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Developing Brook’s Risk of Pregnancy Calculator

Helen Anderson, Senior Digital Innovation Manager at Brook, talks about the process of how Brook went about designing and developing the Risk of Pregnancy Calculator. A core aim of Brook’s…

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Is social media influencing young people’s contraception choices?

Eliza Bell, Brook’s Media and Communications Coordinator, discusses the potentially harmful effects of misinformation being shared on social media around hormonal contraception and how it can be combatted.    From…

Different types of condoms in their wrappers

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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How I got here: CASH Nurse

Harriet Smith, Brook’s Contraception and Sexual Health Nurse in Training from our all-age service in Cornwall, tells us about her realisation that Brook was where she needed to be and how…

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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…

Different contraception methods.
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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…

Contraception: a battle yet to be won

For World Contraception Day, Brook’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Lisa Hallgarten, writes of the immense progress made towards access to contraception, as well as the work still to be done.