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Sexual health
As stated in white paper Healthy lives, healthy people the Government will work towards an integrated model of service delivery to allow easy access to confidential, non-judgemental sexual health services, including for sexually transmitted infections, contraception, abortion, health promotion and prevention. A new sexual health policy document is due to be published in 2012.
Consultation on HIV positive healthcare workers launched
A consultation into relaxing the restrictions placed on the work that can be undertaken by HIV positive healthcare workers was launched today. This follows a review by a group of … Read more → – Consultation on HIV positive healthcare workers launched
Published: 1 December, 2011
Response to Lords Committee on HIV and AIDS
The Government today published its repsonse to the House of Lords Select Committee report, ‘No vaccine, no cure: HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom’. It agrees with many of … Read more → – Response to Lords Committee on HIV and AIDS
Published: 27 October, 2011
The future direction of the national chlamydia screening programme
The Department of Health is working with the Health Protection Agency to take forward plans to improve quality and cost-effectiveness in the National Chlamydia Screen Programme (NCSP). This is in … Read more → – The future direction of the national chlamydia screening programme
Published: 27 July, 2011
