If you’re sexually active it’s important to have regular tests for sexually transmitted infections. These tests are available free of charge from specialist sexual health or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics.

Your doctor will talk to you about your sexual activity and looking after your sexual health at your routine HIV clinic visits. You should be offered a full sexual health screen every year, or more often if you may be at higher risk of sexually transmitted infections. Your routine monitoring may also include regular blood tests for syphilis.

See NAM’s booklet HIV & sex for more information on sexual health check-ups and common sexually transmitted infections and their treatment. You can find out where your nearest GUM clinic is on NAM’s website at aidsmap.com/e-atlas.