SEX-RELATED DISEASES: THE AIDS VIRUS (HIV)-HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE SAFE SEX CAMPAIGN? AND FURTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Posted by admin on March 30, 2009

Posted under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction

When asked if AIDS has altered their sexual behaviour people in the UK tend to say ‘no’ but the evidence says otherwise. According to Virgin Healthcare, condom sales had been increasing by 4-5 per cent a year but in 1986 increased by 20 per cent. Hepatitis B virus is transmitted in very similar ways to HIV and in 1987 only 800 cases were notified – the lowest figure since statistics were first collected in 1974. Methods used to make sex safer also reduce the chances of getting syphilis or gonorrhoea. Expressed as a percentage of all new cases these two diseases have fallen from 16 per cent in 1976 to 7 per cent in 1986

Further sources of information

• Local health education department

• Local sexually transmitted disease clinic

• Special AIDS line 0800-555777

• Healthline telephone service: 01-981-2717, 01-980-7222, 0345-581-151

• Health Education Authority, 78 New Oxford Street, London wcia iah, 01-631-0930

• The Terrence Higgins Trust, BM/AIDS, London wcin 3XX Helpline 01-833-2971 (7 pm-10 pm everyday)

• The Haemophilia Society, PO Box 9, 16 Trinity Street, London SEI TDEOI-407-IOIO

• SCODA (Standing Conference on Drug Abuse), 1-4 Hatton Place, London ecin 8nd

• Welsh AIDS Campaign, 0222-464121

• Scottish Aids Monitor 031-558-1167

• Northern Ireland AIDS Line, Belfast 0232-226117