Young, free and infected: UK faces teenage sexual health crisis

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By Julie Wheelwright
THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Saturday, Jul 24, 2004,Page 9

Jasmine crosses her legs and shifts her gym bag more comfortably on her lap. She sits opposite Dr Emma Fox, the specialist doctor who runs Bridge, a pioneering sexual health clinic for under-20s at Guy's Hospital in London.

Jasmine explains tentatively that her contraceptive pill has been causing irregular bleeding and she doesn't know why. Fox notes her symptoms and runs through a list of questions. "Is this a regular sexual partner?"; "Is he from another country?"; "Do you use condoms?"; "Have you had any other sexual partners?"

At the last question, Jasmine gives a wobbly smile. This is her first boyfriend and she was sexually inexperienced before they got together. Fox assesses that her patient is low-risk for HIV but suggests running a screen for syphilis and gonorrhea because either of these infections could explain the bleeding.

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I only have one word to say about this; you dirty evil ignorant fundimentalist repuke christians!

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you dirty evil ignorant fundimentalist repuke christians

Actually, Britain is quite a secular nation and religion has very little bearing on state sex education. Therefore your insulting of British Christians is unfounded. (although I'm not suprised as we Christians seem to get blamed for most things on DU. Change the word "Christian" to "Jew" or "Muslim" and you will also get an idea of the bigotry at play in this statement)

When the "silver ring thing" came to the UK a few liberals voiced outrage that they should be over here encouraging teenagers to do the one thing that guarantees no STD's but that aside they were very much a flop.