On May 14, as part of National Condom Week (12-19 May), HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is going into Henley College to target students with its ‘Choose to Use’ campaign on safer sex.

THT will have an awareness stall and student volunteers will be giving out free drawstring bags with goodies like lollies and pens in them as well as condoms and safer sex information.  The bags will also contain information on the ‘Choose to Use’ sexual health and contraception clinic, which is aimed specifically at young people in the area.

Rates of STI diagnoses continue to rise among 16-24 year olds and young people are at higher risk of infections such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea. 

Kate Soanes, from the Coventy office of THT said “National Condom Week is the perfect opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of safer sex. Many of these young people will either be having sex already or will be thinking about it so we want them to be equipped with the facts so they feel confident about protecting themselves. We also want them to know that there’s a clinic for them, if they need advice or support around any issue to do with sexual health.”

The ‘Choose to Use’ clinic runs every Thursday from 3-6pm at Henley Green community centre, Wyken Croft, Coventry.  It’s for under 25s from the the Wood End, Henley Green, Manor Farm and Deedmore areas and is run in conjunction with the New Deal For Communities project.

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