Sexual health clinic

A sexual health clinic is a clinicthat specializes in treatment of sex-related problems. Sexual health clinics have been known as VD clinics, STD clinics and GUM clinics (GUM for genitourinary medicine).

Sexual health clinics offer a variety of services, which, depending on the clinic, can include:

• advice on sexual problems
• advice on safer sex
• provision of contraceptionand emergency contraception
• STD testingand treatment for sexually transmitted diseases

Because of the social stigma traditionally associated with sexually transmitted diseases, most sexual health clinics allow patients to be treated anonymously, if they wish.

Many sexual health clinics are attached to a nearby hospital's genitourinary medicine unit.

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