Consultation ends: 05/10/09

The Welsh Assembly Government is consulting on the draft sexual health and well-being for Wales 2009 – 2014 working paper.

The draft paper aims to:

• develop a society that supports open discussion about relationships , sex, and sexuality;
• increase sexual health and relationships literacy;
• improve access to good quality sexual health services;
• reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, particularly among teenage girls;
• reduce the rates of new sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV;
• improve the health and social care for people living with HIV;
• reduce the number of new diagnoses of sexually transmitted Hepatitis B and the number of people at risk;
• strengthen the monitoring, surveillance and research of the population’s sexual health and well-being.

The consultation document is available to download from the Welsh Assembly Government’s website.