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New Postal STI Testing Kits in York and North Yorkshire

Launched on York Pride, MESMAC and YorSexualHealth offer a new postal STI testing kit for over-16s in York and North Yorkshire, testing for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia.

Close-up of hands preparing a home test sampling kit on a dark red surface, with a sample tube, dropper pipettes and instructions.

By Daisy Dooks

In summary

Launched on York Pride, MESMAC and YorSexualHealth offer a new postal STI testing kit for over-16s in York and North Yorkshire, testing for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia.

Today is York Pride and we are launching a new postal STI testing kit for those of you living in York and North Yorkshire!

We’ve teamed up with our partners at YorSexualHealth to launch the new Preventx Smart Kit. If you are over 16 and live in York and North Yorkshire, you can now order a kit online at www.yorsexualhealth.org.uk. All you have to do is take your own samples and send them off to the lab to test for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia. The kit includes everything you need to take:

  • A throat swab (for gonorrhoea and chlamydia)
  • A bum swab for MSM and a vaginal swab for women (for gonorrhoea and chlamydia)
  • A urine sample (for gonorrhoea and chlamydia)
  • A blood test (for HIV and syphilis)

The kit comes in discreet packaging that will fit through your letterbox.

If you have any questions about the kit, please give us a call on 01904 620400.

Check out our video on how to order, use and send off the kit. This video is about the test kits aimed at men who have sex with men. Videos for the other kit variations will be filmed in the near future!

The video will work better if you watch it in HD.