Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV Policy eBulletin Sept 2020
In this month’s eFeature Dame Diana Johnson, MP and Co-Chair of the APPGSRH, discusses the Inquiry’s report – Women’s Lives, Women’s Rights: Strengthening Access to Contraception Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic
Other items to look out for in the round-up this month include: recently published annual data from PHE showing a 5% increase in the number of STI diagnoses in 2019, and much steeper rises in diagnoses of gonorrhoea and syphilis; a new National Framework for e-Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare to support local commissioning and development of testing and contraceptive services; the launch of NAT’s new Community HIV Testing Toolkits to support the implementation and evaluation of community-based testing as we move back towards face-to-face services and Brook’s Inside Out report examining the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on young people including in accessing sexual health and reproductive health services.
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