What vaccines should you get as a sex worker? I was going to get one once but the clinic is hardly open here.

Plus HepC for people who do rimming or are otherwise likely to come into contact with poo.

When I was in London MMC was one of the best and most popular clinics for men who have sex with men, so it's possible you got someone who is much more used to that - the PrEP will be being pushed to them, for example. No excuse though...

Plus HepC for people who do rimming or are otherwise likely to come into contact with poo.

When I was in London MMC was one of the best and most popular clinics for men who have sex with men, so it's possible you got someone who is much more used to that - the PrEP will be being pushed to them, for example. No excuse though...

There is no vaccine for HepC and it's not spread via poo, only blood.

I went the clinic today got full tests and the injection. I was hoping to go every six weeks but she said I can only go every three months. Was a bit surprised because I know the job puts you at a higher risk.

Well she did today

Funding! All the sexual health services in England are seriously underfunded - as part of the Tories' changes to who does the commissioning of health services, since April 2013 the money for STI clinics now comes from local councils. Their financial position means that most of them have reduced services, and many of them are cutting still more this year. On the one hand, doing it by council area is better than letting GPs do it (as they do for much else in England now) but many people have always travelled for their STI testing, especially in London where a handful of central London clinics basically did most of the work.

As an example of what's happened, in many places, the primary service is 'you get sent a testing kit by post'. Just looking at London, it's postcode lottery time: Hillingdon, Hounslow, Sutton, Croydon, Greenwich, and Barking & Dagenham don't fund that, so residents there don't qualify.

If having a comprehensive STI testing and treatment service wasn't a statutory requirement, it'd be even worse.

If you have symptoms, obviously turn up. If you don't.. do you really need testing every six weeks? If you think you do, can you pay for a postal test?

If you don't like this, write to your MP and councillors and let them know that you're pissed off about it.

I remember when I first started I was advised by the GUM clinic nurse to go every month. Now they recommend 3 months and TBH towards the end of that time I start to get a bit antsy. (If I have a condom split then I go after 2 weeks no matter how long the last test was. But it's rare for me to have a condom mishap.)