Centre for Sexual Health

Centre for Sexual Health Website

Welcome to the website for the Centre for Sexual Health in Leeds. Based at the LGI we offer a full Genito-Urinary Medicine service. Our service is completely free and open to all. This website is designed to help you gain access to our services, please use the menu on the left to navigate this site.

Walk-In Sessions

****We are currently running more frequent Walk-In sessions****

Please see Opening Times for details.

This will be on a first come - first served basis so recommend you arrive for 8.45am if you wish to be seen.

Should you need to be seen please call and make a booked appointment in the usual way.

See Making an Appointment for details

Need Sexual Health advice? Not sure if you need an appointment?

Call the UK NHS National Sexual Health Help line.

Open 24 Hours per day, 7 Days per Week : 0800 567 123

IF YOU HAVE A BOOKED APPOINTMENT & CANNOT ATTEND PLEASE CONTACT US,

SO WE CAN OFFER THE APPOINTMENT TO ANOTHER PATIENT

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In the News

World Aids Day 2011

The World Aids day is celebrated on 1st December every year. It is dedicated to elevate the awareness of AIDS pandemic sources by spreading of HIV infectivity. It is ordinary to hold remembrance to respect persons who have expired from HIV/AIDS on this day. Health officials and Govt detect the event, often with forums or speeches on AIDS theme. Since 1995, the President of United States has created an official announcement on the World AIDS Day. Govt of other states have made similar announcement on this day.

This disease has killed above 25 million people between 1981 and 2007. About 33.2 million people universal live with HIV/AIDS as of 2007. It has become the most critical epidemic in the recorded history.

25 August 2010

Sexually transmitted infections near 0.5m a year in UK

By Jane Dreaper Health correspondent, BBC News

Dr Gwenda Hughes, STI expert at the HPA, says young people lack confidence to insist on safer sex. There were almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK last year, figures show. Experts at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) say young people are most affected. And one in 10 of 15-24 year olds with an STI become infected again within a year.

Health ministers said they would look at what more could be done to increase young people's awareness of risks. The 482,696 new cases represent a 3% rise from the 2008 figures, continuing a "steady upward trend" that the HPA said had been seen over the past decade. Urban and deprived areas have the highest rates of STIs. Hotspots include Hackney and Lambeth in London, as well as Nottingham, Manchester and Blackpool.

The rise is in part due to more testing, and the use of tests which are more sensitive at picking up signs of an infection - but experts believe unsafe sexual behavior is also part of the story. Dr Gwenda Hughes, an STI expert at the HPA, said: "These figures highlight the vulnerability of young women." "Many studies have shown that young adults are more likely to have unsafe sex. Often they lack the skills and confidence to negotiate safer sex." "Re-infection is also a worrying issue. Teenagers are repeatedly putting their own and others' long-term health at risk."

There were 217,570 diagnoses of chlamydia in 2009 - a 7% increase on the previous year. Cases of genital herpes went up by 5% to 30,126. And diagnoses of gonorrhoea have gone up by 6% from 16,451 cases in 2008 to 17,385 last year.

Dr Colm O'Mahony, a consultant physician in sexual health, told BBC Radio 5 live, that the safe sex message was still not getting through to young people. "In general, most STIs occur in young people because they lack the knowledge and self-esteem to actually avoid getting sexually transmitted infections - and that's what we've been shouting about for years," he said. "We really need proper sex and relationship education in schools, and it needs to be a statutory obligation or this relentless increase will just continue unabated." The HPA says the bacteria which cause gonorrhoea are becoming more resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics.

Professor Cathy Ison, from the agency's Centre for Infections, said: "We could see gonorrhoea becoming a very difficult infection to treat within the next five years." "The infecting bacteria are very versatile. We're trying to encourage companies to develop effective new antibiotics."

Sexual health charities described the figures as "alarming" and joined the HPA in urging people to use condoms, and to have a health check if they have had unsafe sex. Natika Halil, from the FPA, said: "Young men don't wear condoms and it appears it's young women who end up with the infection." "The message from this data to the new government is that they mustn't be tempted to cut services and campaigns in sexual health, or ignore the urgent need for statutory sex and relationships education in schools." Health Minister Paul Burstow said: "Left untreated, STIs can lead to infertility. "We're going to look at what more can be done to increase young people's awareness of risks, to prevent infection and to access screening and treatment."

Link to page:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11072853

Wednesday 3rd March 2009

A mother's kiss could have accidentally led to the death of her 11-day-old baby.

Jennifer Schofield's vital organs failed after being infected with Herpes Simplex Virus passed on through a cold sore. Her mother, Ruth, had felt ill a few days before giving birth last November and was later treated for mouth ulcers. The condition's believed to kill six babies a year in the UK.

Recording a narrative verdict at the inquest into Jennifer's death, Dr James Adeley said Miss Schofield, 35, probably caught HSV in the late stages of her pregnancy. Miss Schofield, of Lancaster, said: "I have been left totally devastated and heartbroken by the death of Jennifer. It's more than a year since she died but the pain has not lessened." She has written to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and her local MP to ask for greater awareness to be publicized in clinics over the virus.

She added: "More needs to be done as this can happen to anyone without them knowing". Source Yahoo News

Friday November 14 2008

"Health officials fear that a man with HIV who has been a nightclub regular in Leicester and had unsafe sex with many partners encountered at the venues over six years could have put a number of women at risk." Tim Walsh, The Guardian, Friday November 14 2008

If you are worried that you may have been in contact with someone with HIV please call the appointment line to arrange an appointment. If you are aware that you have had contact with HIV within the last 72 hours please ensure you make staff aware of this.

Wear Red Day

To support World Aids Day on the 1st of December clerical staff within the department will donate £1 to wear a red item of clothing. There will be the opportunity to purchase red ribbons in the department. To donate online visit worldaidsday.org