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- Professional Organisations
- NHS or Government websites
- Charitable foundations connected with sexual health
- Publications
Professional Organisations
Medical Colleges and Associations specialising in sexual health
Genito Urinary Nurses Association (GUNA)
National Association of Nurses for Contraception and Sexual Health (NANCSH)
General Nursing or Medical Colleges and Associations
Nursing colleges specialising in community health
Association of District Nurse Educators
Community and District Nursing Association
Associations concerned with HIV
British Association of Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH)
British HIV Association (BHIVA)
NHS or Government websites
Faculty of Public Health - The standard setting body for specialists in public health.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.
The NHS Alliance - The main representative organisation of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England.
Charitable foundations connected with sexual health
Brook Advisory Service - Offers free, confidential sexual health advice and contraception to young people up to the age of 25.
Family Planning Association - Aims to advance the sexual health, reproductive rights and choice of all people throughout the UK.
Marie Stopes International - One of the leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare in the world today.
Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health (MedFASH) - Promoting excellence in the prevention and management of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
The King's Fund - An independent charity working for better health, especially in London.
The Terrence Higgins Trust - The leading HIV and AIDS charity in the UK and the largest in Europe.
Publications
Teenage Pregnancies
Brook Advisory Service: Factsheet 1: Teenage Sexual Activity: April 2002 - Trends in teenage sexual behaviour and age at first intercourse. Pdf file.
Brook Advisory Service: Factsheet 2: Teenage conceptions: statistics and trends: April 2002 - Statistics and trends in teenage conceptions and pregnancies. Pdf file.
Department of Health: Teenage Pregnancy Unit: Conception statistics 1998-2003: Published February 2005 - National and local authority conception statistics.
Department of Health: Teenage Pregnancy Unit: Resources - Resources section contains official reports of Teenage Pregnancy.
Parliamentary report on Teenage Pregnancy: June 1999 - Sets out the Social Exclusion Unit's analysis of the problem of teenage pregnancy; the decisions the Government has made about how to tackle it and some issues on which the Government would welcome views.
pdf version of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: Teenage pregnancy and parenthood: a review of reviews into the effectiveness of non-clinical interventions. Evidence briefing: February 2003 - An overview of various studies into whether non-clinical interventions have proved effective in preventing unwanted teenage pregnancies.
Sexually transmitted infections
Department of Health; Policy and Guidance: Sexual health and HIV strategy - Better prevention, better services, better sexual health - The national strategy for sexual health and HIV.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: Prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs): a review of reviews into the effectiveness of non-clinical interventions. Evidence briefing: January 2004 - Conclusions largely based on evidence for intervention effectiveness in influencing behavioural outcomes. Pdf file.
Contraception and Sexual Health
Department of Health: Report into Contraception and Sexual Health 2003/2004 - Contains statistics regarding contraception use among women aged under 50; sterilisation and vasectomies; sexual health and condom use; knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases. Pdf file.
Reproductive hazards
Medical Research Council: Policy and Guidance: Version 2, May 2005: Reproductive hazards, carcinogens and mutagens - This document deals with those substances known or suspected of presenting a reproductive, carcinogenic, or mutagenic hazard when used in the workplace. Pdf file.