Support with your sexual health
How to get information, advice and support with your sexual health, or the health of someone you know.
Where to get help
Brighton & Hove Sexual Health and Contraception Service (SHAC)
SHAC have three locations across the city, and their services include:
- free confidential advice
- specialist walk in and booked clinics
- testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STI’s)
- home testing kits for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV
- pregnancy advice and tests
- contraception advice
- emergency contraception
- support for people who have experienced sexual assault
- help with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- help with post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
- vaccinations for Hepatitis A
- vaccinations for Hepatitis B
- vaccinations for HPV
Other help you can get
You can get contraception from your GP or family doctor. This includes the pill, implants, coil, and injections.
If you’re under 25 years old, you can get free emergency contraception, from a community pharmacy. They also offer chlamydia testing and treatment to people under 25 years old and their partners.
MSI UK offer advice on:
You can find more information and advice about sexual health on NHS.UK, or search the Health and Adult Social Care directory. for local sexual health support.
Support with HIV
Terrence Higgins Trust
Terrence Higgins Trust can give you support, advice and information about sexual health and HIV.
They offer:
- local HIV and STI testing
- Counselling and HIV support
- advice on pre-exposure prophylaxis
- advice on post-exposure prophylaxis
- information if you’ve just found out you’re HIV positive.
You can also phone them on 01273 764 200.
Testing for HIV
You can order a free self-sampling HIV and Syphilis kit to be sent to you through the post.
There are many other way you can get an HIV test in the city. Use the NHS.UK search for local HIV testing services.
Find other ways to get an HIV test in Brighton & Hove.
Mpox
Mpox (previously known as Monkeypox) is a rare viral infection that can be transmitted through close, physical, skin-to-skin contact. There has recently been an increase in cases in the UK, but the risk of catching it is low.
Get the latest information on Mpox from the NHS.
You can also check with Brighton & Hove SHAC for local Mpox advice and updates.