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The Department of Sexual Health at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital offers a range of Sexual Health Services for the public of Birmingham and surrounding areas.

We have clinics at Heartlands Hospital and on several other sites around the city. These include Sexually Transmitted Infection screening at the Birmingham Brook clinic, The Drake Unit in the Birmingham Chest Clinic (near Paradise circus and Broad Street) and the Terence Higgins Trust (near Hurst Street and the Hippodrome). We also offer contraception services at all of our clinics and run one of the largest HIV Services in the Midlands.

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    January 24, 2013

    Public confused about how you get HIV

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    [National AIDS Trust press release] Nearly half (46%) of the general public wrongly think you can get HIV from being bitten, spat at or coming into contact with a discarded needle and underestimate the impact unsafe sex has on HIV transmission, a new survey[1] shows (14 Jan) . The quiz taken by 12,000 members of the…

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    November 23, 2012

    National HIV Testing Week

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    National HIV Testing Week begins today. A nationwide effort on the part of clinics, hospitals and charities across the UK, the aim is simple: to raise awareness about HIV and why and when people should get tested for it. During the week, we’re teaming up with other organisations in England to encourage gay men and…

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    September 18, 2012

    Have An MOT This Week

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    This week is the FPA’s sexual health week, and opportunity for that charity and other groups to promote smart thinking about sex and your health. This year, the FPA and Brook are calling for the UK not to go backwards on sexual health. FPA Sexual Health Week informs the public, influences service providers and supports…

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    August 20, 2012

    Older adults risking their sexual health

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    Sexual Health Clinics in Birmingham are seeing an increasing number of older adults with sexually transmitted diseases (STI) and HIV. Many of those seeking help have become newly single through divorce, separation, or the death of their partners and have started new sexual relationships without using condoms. Others are women who have gone through the…

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    May 29, 2012

    Heartlands and Henan on BBC

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    Heartlands HIV Service, and our colleagues from the Sixth People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou City, featured yesterday on BBC Midlands today. It was great exposure for what we think is a really exciting collaborative project. You can read the story here, or watch the TV coverage by clicking here!  

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