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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…

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Language and cultural barriers to accessing sexual health services

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. Paula Wawrzynczyk, Education and…

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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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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…

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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.