Condoms are FREE if you have a C Card!

Chlamydia

If you are under the age of 20 (and in some cases under 25) you can get free condoms from various places in Bath and North East Somerset by using a C Card.

Chlamydia Screening is FREE and CONFIDENTIAL in Bath and North East Somerset.

Chlamydia is the most common STI in the UK. Rates are highest in young people, with 1 in 10 sexually active people under 25 infected. Most people with Chlamydia have no symptoms. If it is left undiagnosed and untreated, Chlamydia can cause long-term problems including infertility and pain.

It's important to test yourself every year and whenever you have sex with someone new.

The Avon NHS Chlamydia Screening Programme provides free, confidential self-test kits to people under 25 years old. The test is simple, painless and you do not need to be examined. Chlamydia is usually easy to treat with tablets.

The test kits are available from all sexual health services, school and college nurses, youth workers and many pharmacies and GP practices. A test can also be posted to you. Visit the freetest.me website to request one.

For more information contact:
Tel: 0845 180 0050
Email: csp.avon@nhs.net

Remember you cannot tell by looking at someone whether they have an STI!

Remember ... you should never feel pressured into having sex. It should be a decision that both you and your partner make together. It is illegal to have sex if you are under 16. Health professionals can provide confidential sexual health information, advice and contraception to you whatever your age if have decided to have sex.

Fact: About 4 out of 10 diagnoses of the STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) Gonorrhoea are in females aged 16-19.

Want more info about condoms and sexual health?

Visit www.ruthinking.co.uk
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Where to go ...

STI testing
Keynsham Clinic
CASH Clinic

Testing and treatment
G.U.M Clinic

If you do not live in the Bath and North East Somerset area but want to know where to go for sexually transmitted infections visit www.ruthinking.co.uk