TY - JOUR T1 - Coronavirus (COVID-19) and young people’s sexual health JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 473 LP - 474 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054699 VL - 96 IS - 7 AU - Rebecca Thomson-Glover AU - Hayley Hamlett AU - Daniel Weston AU - Jane Ashby Y1 - 2020/11/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/96/7/473.abstract N2 - COVID-19 has reduced health-seeking behaviour in the UK1 including in sexual health services (SHS).2 We sought to describe changes in sexual health attendances among young people (YP) within a semirural service setting (A) and at services based in London and Surrey (B) during the weeks preceding and following lockdown.Our findings (table 1) confirmed a large fall in attendances across all age ranges in all settings following lockdown in keeping with the rapid reconfiguration of services during COVID-19 response. In those aged under 18 years there was a disproportionately larger reduction in attendances compared with those aged 18 and over, and this discrepancy was particularly marked in setting A (semirural).View this table:In this windowIn a new windowTable 1 Comparison of attendances at two sexual health services (A/B) pre and during the COVID-19 lockdown periodAttendances for emergency contraception (EC) (emergency hormonal contraception and postcoital intrauterine devices were compared (table 2). Both services demonstrated that during the first 6 weeks of lockdown, no under 18 year olds … ER -