User:Rachelclayton/STIQ Day

STIQ Day is a national health initiative on January 14th launched to get people thinking about their sexual health and encourage more people to get regular sexual health checks.

January 14th, a date chosen specifically to fall two weeks after New Years Eve, the time it takes for many STIs to show up in a test, and exactly one month before Valentine's Day. The STI infection rate in the UK is rising every year with recent statistics showing the one in every ten people under the age of 25 is carrying Chlamydia. As most STIs show no symptons, it is very easy to carry, and spread, an STI without knowing that you have one which makes making people more knowledge all the more important. The most common Sexually Transmitted Infections in the UK include Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea