During the year, we support a number of regional and national campaigns.
These help to raise awareness of the services we offer and provide a chance to highlight important health issues to our communities.
We often hold events during these weeks or months to promote our services.
Please see more details below.
Our latest campaign encourages 15 to 24-year-olds to look after their sexual health by ordering regular chlamydia and gonorrhoea home testing kits.
If you are sexually active, you should aim to get tested at least once a year or every time you change partners, even if you have no symptoms.
We know it can be hard finding time to attend a clinic, but getting tested is now easier than ever!
If you’re 15-24 and live in Northumberland or North Tyneside, you can order a free, confidential and discreet home testing kit to be delivered directly to you door. You can complete the test at your own convenience and then all you have to do is pop it in the post box to return it. Confidential follow-up and support will then be available should you need it.
For more information or to order your kit, please visit www.northumbria.nhs.uk/c-and-g-tests.
If you’re worried about anything to do with your sexual health or would like to discuss something in more detail, please don’t hesitate to contact the sexual health team, you can find the details here.
When it comes to sex, do you worry more about catching an STI, or catching feelings? Using condoms is one way to practice safer sex, but if the brain is the body’s biggest erogenous zone, how do we protect it?
For decades, Brook has taken a holistic approach to sexual health, recognising that physical and emotional wellbeing are inseparable. But with mental health in decline and STIs on the rise, it’s more important than ever to talk about how the two intersect. That’s why for Sexual Health Week 2024: Are You Feeling It? Brook will be shining a light on the inextricable links between mental health and sexual health and demonstrating the positive impact of early intervention.
Please contact our health promotion team to organise a community testing event or promotional events:
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Article on HIV and testing
HIV campaigner Julieanne Mitchell has shared why it's vital to encourage people to make sexual health checks a routine part of their lives.
"The answer to why should you test for HIV is simple - it could save your life."
Click here to read more.
We hosted an interactive and informative webinar highlighting menopause.
Our guest speakers, Joanne Hall and Sarah Beattie, shared their knowledge and best practice regarding menopause.
To watch our webinar back, please see below, or click here.
