Sexual health services are free and available to everyone. Part of maintaining your wellbeing is caring for your sexual health.
Sexual health services provide:
- Advice on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and how to protect yourself
- STI testing and treatment
- Information on different types of contraception
- Any type of contraception, including emergency contraception, contraceptive pill, injection, implant and coil
- PrEP (Pre Exposure prophylaxis) which is used by men who have sex with men to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. It can also be taken by women who have many partners.
Get more information from the Swansea Bay Health Board website, or Frisky Wales below.
Swansea Bay Health Board are now visiting different areas throughout Bridgend, Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea to deliver services following the telephone consultation. Please call 0300 555 0279 for more information or contact us via this email address: sbu.sexualhealth@wales.nhs.uk
As part of your consultation, you’ll be asked some personal questions such as your medical and sexual history, what contraception you use, and about your sex life and sexual partners.
All information will be treated confidentially and nobody within your household will be contacted. However, if it’s felt that you or someone else is at risk of coming to harm, we may need to inform other services to make sure people are safe.
Home testing STIs are available from Frisky Wales for free. You will be asked to complete an online questionnaire and then select the test you require. The test will be posted to your home address. If you don’t want a test to come to your home address, please contact the helpline 0300 555 0279.
You’re advised to wait two weeks after a potential exposure before providing a sample for chlamydia and gonorrhoea, and six weeks for HIV and syphilis.
You will be texted negative results. If you have a positive result, or if your answers have indicated that you need further advice, the sexual health service will be in touch to arrange your free and confidential treatment and care.
If you’d like support regarding an unplanned pregnancy or a termination of pregnancy, please call 01792 200303 to make a self-referral.
