A nurse-led clinic offering screening for sexual infections to men within an existing HIV outpatient service was created. A retrospective case-note review was undertaken of those having a sexual health (SH) screen between May and December 2007. A total of 125 men had an SH screen, 117 identified as men who have sex with men and 84 were asymptomatic. Six (7%) asymptomatic men had chlamydial and two (2%) had gonococcal infection. Six new diagnoses of syphilis and two of hepatitis C virus infection were made. We suggest that introducing a nurse-led clinic offering SH screening within HIV services has helped to achieve national standards and improved the SH of our patients.
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The British HIV Association (BHIVA), the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) and the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2007 UK Guidelines for the Management of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) of People Living with HIV Infection. 2007
