NHS Policy on Condoms!

[wishuwerehere]

I totally agree - I'm a student and they really push not getting pregnant, as opposed to not getting stds, at my student health service. When I saw my doctor after having LO and she asked me about contraception, I said I was sticking to condoms and she told me off and said it was 'too risky' (wtf) using condoms, that I really needed hormonal contraception...
There has also been a big push on chlamidya (sp) testing recently. I wonder how much less it would cost the NHS if they didn't have to campaign against chlamidya because more people used condoms in the first place?

 

[Lightworker]

Absolutely. It seems they would rather fork out the treatment for STIs than take significant steps to prevent it. I am trying to work out if it is more cost effective to supply someone with an adequate amount of condoms, or supply them with a lifetime of anti retroviral drugs and long term consultant-led care in the event of HIV contraction. And its not just STIs condoms are a legitimate contraceptive for married people like me.

 

[Rhio92]

I asked for some... Got 4. WTF.
So I got the coil instead :/

 

[Rhio92]

Although, now reading the above posts, that doesn't protect me/him from STIs if I got a new sexual partner x