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As part of our comprehensive strategy to improve the sexual health of the population, the Department of Health is working to reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, reduce unintended pregnancies (particularly teenage pregnancies) and improve the range, access to and quality of service provision. On these pages you will find more information and guidance on sexual health including contraception, abortion and STIs and HIV.
This document sets out the current inequalities in sexual health, the national policies that are already in place to reduce and eliminate these inequalities, and an action plan to improve national sexual health policy by continuing to narrow them.
General features and resources about sexual health including contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections and HIV.
July 2001 strategy document and June 2002 action plan for modernising sexual health services in England, and implementation progress reports.
In this section you can find out about the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP).
The establishment of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV was announced by the Public Health Minister on 6th March 2003. The group, which provides a wide range of views from health professionals involved in all aspects of sexual health, will monitor progress and advise the government on implementation of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy. The commitment to appoint this advisory group was included in the government's Sexual Health and HIV Strategy Implementation Action Plan pubished in 2002.
The Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA) is an advisory non-departmental public body which is non-statutory. It was established in 1985 with the following terms of reference:
"To provide advice on such matters relating to HIV/AIDS as may be referred to it by the Chief Medical Officers of the Health Departments of the United Kingdom".
This paper is written in direct response to requests from fieldworkers in primary care, mainly from PCT Sexual Health Leads, School Nurses and Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinators (regional and local).
