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Let's Talk Sexual Health - Home Self Testing Kits | Nursing Student UK. Part 1 - Doing self testing from the comfort of your own home for sexually transmitted infections.

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* I have just finished my second year as an adult nursing student at Birmingham City University.
* I am very passionate about nursing and want to bring that passion back into the hearts of everyone.
* Passionate about GP nursing and primary care.
* I am also a healthcare assistant in sexual health and family planning, where I have worked for the past 4 years and 9 months. I absolutely love it!
* Before sexual health I worked in care home for the elderly, orthopaedic theatres and I have done some bank shifts on the wards at the QE Hospital Birmingham too. Overall around 10 years healthcare experience.

[SezFrancis]

I did not know that you can have a self test home kit testing for sexual infections. That’s literally a life saver; I’m sure a lot of people will appreciate this. 🙂 Great video, Claire; I cannot wait for the next Sexual Health Video. 🦋✨

[pennywalker]

This is amazing! I knew you could self test for chlamydia at home, but it's fantastic that you can now test for most things at home! I wonder if they do something similar in my area, I heard on the grapevine that they are closing a lot of our sexual health clinics 👎 Fab video Claire! 😁

[tashax]

Great video Claire. Never knew all of those things could be tested for at home!

[NurseCorinne]

Brilliant Video claire as always! Great advice <3

[clairequinn]

Thank you so much for this really informative video claire, so helpful xx

[bradford-vts]

Where can you get these test kits from? Or is this something Birmingham specific? I wish they were just all available online that people could just order and do in the privacy of their homes than wait for 2 hours in a sexual health clinic and feel embarrassed while sat there watching others come and go. I'd love to be able to direct people to a website and say "do it yourself here" because self testing is pretty easy. And surely it would ease the workload at sexual health clinics. As a GP, I've been banging on about home self testing kits for the last 10 years - I just think it is a no brainer - but I'm still a bit disappointed that its not universally available in the UK. There are many private clinics who sell them online BUT - (a) they sell them at a fortune and (b) they often don't do the full works!

[fareed]

Are there any other tests to do to check if you have any STDs?