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And get back out there

Get it checked

Friday, 30 May 2008

Get it checked, get back out there. That’s the message from THT this month as they re-launch their campaign to increase gay men’s awareness of sexually transmitted diseases. Complete with hi-profile adverts displayed across the scene – be that gay bar washroom panels, roadside adverts near gay venues in major gay centres, phone boxes near London gay venues, adverts in London Underground stations or cigarette kiosks on Manchester’s Canal Street.

The campaign originally ran in 2005. It includes adverts with images of sexy men in their underwear, but with visible signs of a STI – a sore, rash or discharge. The waistband of the underwear features the name of the infection. One of the images appears normal apart from ‘STI’ printed along the waistband, to highlight that some infections have no symptoms at all.

With infection levels rising there has been no better time to check yourself out. and with the help of the THT you can do just that. say farewell to waistbands reading syphilis, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia and say hello to Calvin, D&G and Just Us Boyz.

www.chapsonline.org.uk/infections