Monkeypox pressure on sex health clinic waiting times
The Independent|August 07, 2022
Patients are having to wait weeks for STI treatments due to growing pressure on sexual health clinics driven by the monkeypox outbreak, health leaders have warned.
SAMUEL LOVETT
Monkeypox pressure on sex health clinic waiting times

Rising infection rates are forcing clinics to reduce their usual day-to-day activities by 30 per cent as the focus turns to identifying potential monkeypox cases and administering the vaccine to atrisk groups, according to the Terence Higgins Trust.

The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV said that the monkeypox outbreak had also made it harder for people to access Prep a preventive drug that minimises the chances of contracting HIV in at-risk groups and long-lasting contraception, such as the coil. A total of 2,859 infections have been detected in the UK to date, the majority of which are centred on the capital.

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