TY - JOUR T1 - Sexual health in the UK: the experience of racially minoritised communities and the need for stakeholder input JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2022-055605 SP - sextrans-2022-055605 AU - Dwayne-Wilson Hunt AU - Rageshri Dhairyawan AU - Annabel Sowemimo AU - Tom Nadarzynski AU - Uzochi Nwaosu AU - Shardia Briscoe-Palmer AU - Joseph Heskin AU - Frances Lander AU - Taslima Rashid A2 - , Y1 - 2023/02/22 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2023/03/09/sextrans-2022-055605.abstract N2 - Despite sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in the UK being free for everyone, many disparities persist. Racially minoritised communities (RMCs) have experienced inequalities within SRH for several decades; and while there are social and cultural differences within groups under this umbrella, being racially minoritised significantly impacts how groups experience SRH. This is demonstrated by disparities in STI prevalence, HIV outcomes, contraception provision, maternal care and subfertility outcomes.Higher rates of bacterial STIs in RMCs have been recognised since the 1950s and persist to the present day.1 2 Year on year, UK data consistently demonstrate a disproportionate burden of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis among black people.1 Recently, the largest increase in the proportion of bacterial STIs was seen in the Asian community,1 yet only 3.7% of this group were noted to attend SRH services, a clear demonstration of barriers to engagement. RMCs are disproportionately affected by HIV in the UK, with over three-quarters of women attending HIV clinics being racially minoritised. While new HIV diagnoses are declining, this is slower among RMCs suggesting insufficient knowledge of, or … ER -