Pint and a sex test in Bedlington
Young people will be offered the chance of taking a chlamydia test at a pub in Bedlington later this month.
Drinkers aged between 18-24 will be offered the chance to urinate in a pot when specialist health advisers from Northumberland, Tyne and Wear chlamydia screening programme visit the Red Lion pub on November 28 from 8pm.
Michelle Stamp, chlamydia screening programme manager, said: "This is a really good way of engaging with young people to help raise awareness about chlamydia.
"We want to offer as many young people as possible the opportunity to have a free confidential chlamydia test. It is a particularly nasty infection because it doesn't always have symptoms but it can leave you infertile.
"Chlamydia can be easily treated with a short course of antibiotics and we are making it as easy as possible for people to be tested and treated for this condition."
The NHS has a target to test 17% of young people aged between 15 and 24 years old as one in 10 young people are thought to have the infection.
The pub goers who choose to take part will have their samples sent to a laboratory to be checked out. Results usually take a few days to come through and people are given the option to decide whether they want to receive them by text, telephone or post.
Specialist health advisers from the NHS are also available to help people tell their sexual partners that they too may have chlamydia.
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