Three cheers for the news that nearly one in three secondary schools are now running sexual health clinics for pupils - some as young as 11 - offering condoms, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
This figure is revealed in a new report from the Sex Education Forum. And I think it makes encouraging reading.
I’m wholly [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if clinics are based in schools, it has emerged.
The UK’s teenage pregnancy rates are among the worst in Europe - rising by 143% from 1991 to 2001 - and the Department of Health has called for children to have better access to school-based clinics.
According to [...]
Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) will consider a staff proposal tomorrow, to provide free access to the emergency contraceptive pill, or morning after pill, at local pharmacies, The New Zealand Herald reports.
At the moment the pill is sold at pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription, for around $35, without parental consent.
ADHB planning and funding manager Wendy [...]
