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HIV infections now higher in heterosexuals

Health professionals from Cumbria are highlighting the groups where HIV infections are rising as we aim to eliminate AIDS as a public health threat this World Aids Day (Sunday 1st December).ew HIV diagnoses among ethnic minority heterosexuals … is higher than for gay and bisexual men … Deputy Medical Director and sexual health consultant at North Cumbria Integrate

National HIV Testing Week

Professor Matt Phillips, Deputy Medical Director and Sexual Health Consultant is reminding the public that clinics are available across the county where people can get tested and that the treatments are now effective.dal and Barrow. If you want to attend a sexual health clinic in Cumbria call the central bo…s sexual health clinics. People can live with HIV f… at a sexual health clinic

Trust and agencies celebrating National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2020

CE is an umbrella term for a range of exploitative crimes against children, such as sexual and criminal exploitation which includes modern day slavery and county lines drugs trafficking. such as sexual and criminal exploitation which includes mod…Sexual

Trust celebrates LGBT+ History Month with an online event

Professor Matt Phillips, a sexual health doctor at NCIC, will give an online presentation and Q&A. bisexual and transgender …ory Month by holding a live Teams event with sexual health doctor Professor Matt Phillips. It wi… associate medical director and sexual health doctor at NCIC

Be part of the generation that stops HIV.

Did you know that you can live with HIV for a long time without realising that you have? That’s why health professionals urge those who are sexually active to test for HIV at least once a year. why health professionals urge those who are sexually active to test for HIV at least once a yea…n. Professor Matt Phillips Consultant in Sexual health at North Cumbria Integrated Health NH

Pill to prevent HIV now widely available in Cumbria

Cumbria’s sexual health services are now able to prescribe a pill to people at high risk of contracting HIV, which, when taken correctly, greatly reduces the risk of acquiring it through sex .s sexual health services are now able to prescribe a … Clinical Director for Sexual Health services said … regardless of their gender or sexual orientation. Trials have shown it is at 87

World Aids Day: Testing and treating is the key to ending HIV transmissions

Ahead of World Aids Day on 1st December 2022, sexual health clinics across Cumbria are opening their doors to local MP and Mayors to share information about what our services provide. sexual health clinics across Cumbria are opening th… If you want to attend a sexual health clinic in Cumbria call the central bo…onfidential HIV tests are available from NHS sexual health clinics

Practice safe sex over the festive period

There are a number of things that can be done in Cumbria Sexual Health services to reduce your risks around sex - from ensuring you have good contraception, to providing medication to protect you from HIV depending on your risks.number of things that can be done in Cumbria Sexual Health services to reduce your risks around …we all want to enjoy ourselves and often our sexual health and wellbeing can be put to the back

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National Adult Safeguarding Week: everyone’s chance to spot the signs of modern slavery

Staff from safeguarding agencies across Cumbria will receive training to spot the signs of modern slavery. forced labour or sex work to child sexual exploitation. In Cumbria… rape or child sexual abuse. Further information