§ Dr. StoateTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to design NHS sexual health services which are aimed at appealing to young men. [125159]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonIn implementing the national strategy for sexual health and HIV, the Department of Health has published a sexual health promotion toolkit, which provides practical advice to those working in the field of sexual health promotion with young men, to ensure that they are proactively targeted and that services are open a ad welcoming. Also, the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy recognises that increasing the involvement of boys and young men in decisions about sexual health is crucial and young men are, therefore, included in all aspects of the strategy. The Department is also funding the Men's Health Forum to investigate men's perceptions and attitudes towards chlamydia and to identify the best way to target men, both with information and for screening.
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§ Dr. StoateTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will introduce a chlamydia screening programme for young women. [125160]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe Department is already rolling out a national chlamydia screening programme for young women. Indeed, screening for chlamydia is now widely available in local national health service sexual health (genitor-urinary medicine) clinics. Following the successful completion of a pilot study, 10 areas, covering 30 primary care trusts and over 400 individual testing sites, are developing an improved screening programme within a standard framework, which we are extending further.