This specific role within our sexual health services is here to:
Focus on health promotion and support by enabling lesbian and bisexual women to access appropriate sexual health services.
Provide lesbian and bisexual women direct access to sexual health testing, information and advice.
Be a point of contact for women who have concerns or enquiries around their sexual health and well-being.
Refer and signpost into related services such as counselling, IDVA (independent domestic violence advocate) and ISVA(independent sexual violence advocate), or other services.
Identify and challenge real or perceived barriers lesbian and bisexual women may face when accessing healthcare through sexual health promotion and outreach.
Raise awareness among lesbian and bisexual women on any specific sexual health and support issues that are relevant to them.
Raise awareness of health inequalities and barriers faced by L & B Women within wider services and address these though training and education.
You can get in touch with our Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Sexual Health Promotion Worker by calling us on 0121 643 0821 or by email at: sexualhealth@blgbt.org
Gonorrhoea is a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) caused by bacteria. It is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the UK.
Hepatitis C is a viral infection affecting the liver. It has usually been associated with injecting drug use but we now know that it can be passed on sexually, particularly with certain sex practices.
Genital herpes is a common infection caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). It can cause painful blisters on the genitals and the surrounding areas.
NGU is inflammation of the male urethra (water pipe) which can occur due to various causes hence the condition sometimes being called Non-Gonococcal Urethritis (NGU).
TV is a curable sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a protozoon called Trichomonas vaginalis, or ‘TV’. Protozoa are tiny germs similar to bacteria.
