Men to Be Asked for Urine Samples in Pubs As Part of Plan to Cut Stis Exclusive

The HeraldJuly 13, 2009

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BRITAIN'S biggest sexual health charity is to approach young men for urine samples in public places such as pubs and clubs n Scotland, in a radical NHS-funded bid to cut the amount of sexuallytransmitted infections.

Members of the Terrence Higgins Trust will be making the visits this month as official figures showed that the cases of serious sexually-transmitted infections have increased in Scotland by 110per cent in just over a decade.

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Men to Be Asked for Urine Samples in Pubs As Part of Plan to Cut Stis Exclusive

There were 22,906 diagnoses of acute STIs - such as syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HIV - in 2007, an increase of 7per cent on the ...

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