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Safe Sex Messages to Young

Posted on: Friday, 5 August 2005, 09:01 CDT

YOUNG people aged 16-25 were yesterday targeted in a new poster campaign in clubs and pubs in Wales to promote safer sex.

The number of common sexually transmitted infections was reduced in Wales between 2003-4, although the rate for chlamydia rose slightly.

Health minister Dr Brian Gibbons yesterday launched the campaign to try to build on the success.

Figures from the Health Protection Agency show reductions in Wales of the rates of gonorrhoea, herpes, genital warts and syphilis between 2003 and 2004.

The rate of chlamydia infection rose slightly over the same period from 100.7 per 100,000 of population in 2003 to 102.3 per 100,000 of population in 2004.

But rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) remained generally highest in the 16-25 age group.

The campaign aimed to raise awareness of the health risks associated with STIs, promote safer sex, and highlight the services available to people if they are worried about infection.

Posters will be displayed in the toilets of pubs, nightclubs, universities and colleges across Wales.

Existing genitourinary medicine and family planning services in Wales are to be integrated into a single sexual health service which will enable more STI testing to take place

Source: Daily Post; Liverpool

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