Screening for STIs if you don't have symptoms

Get a postal self-test kit from Unity Sexual Health. 

Due to changes in the national screening programme, we are not able to offer routine screening for chlamydia to men with no symptoms. However, we continue to offer tests to women, to men with symptoms, or anyone who is a contact of someone who has chlamydia. 

• Self test kits for girls and women are freely available in the practice in the waiting room (pink and white striped bags). You will need to return your test kit to one of the sample boxes in the practice. You do not need an appointment for this test.
• If you male and are worried but don't have any symptoms, you can still order a postal kit from Unity Sexual Health.
• Free condoms are available from Student Health if you are under 25 but only if you are seeing a doctor or nurse.

Worried you might have a sexually transmitted infection?

Book an appointment with a nurse or doctor if you are worried or have symptoms. Symptoms might include:

• Pain when you pass urine
• Discharge
• Genital or rectal blisters or sores
• In women, bleeding between periods or after sex
• In men, pain around the testes

Some non-sexually transmitted conditions such as thrush and bacterial vaginosis (BV) can also have similar symptoms.
Contact Unity Sexual Health for free postal kits for STI screening. This includes a blood spot test for HIV/Hepatitis.

HIV testing

Screening is available for patients in higher risks groups, including:

• People diagnosed with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) such as Genital Warts, Genital Herpes, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, Trichomonas, Hepatitis, NSU (Non specific urethritis)
• People from a country with a high prevalence of HIV (>1%) (see box below)
• Sexual partners of those from a high HIV prevalence country (>1%) (see box below)
• Sexual partners of those known to be HIV positive.
• IV drug users.

You may be offered additional tests for Syphilis and Hepatitis if appropriate at the same time as the HIV test.

NHS Choices HIV.