FREE condoms are being offered to pensioners to combat rising rates of infections among the sexually active baby-boom generation.
The NHS campaign, thought to be the first of its kind, targets older people who may have thought their days of taking precautions were long behind them.
NHS services in Derbyshire are dispensing condoms at doctors’ surgeries, community venues and food banks in a campaign named “Jiggle, Wiggle” following a sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections among those born in the Swinging Sixties.
It is thought that rising divorce rates and the popularity of online dating are fuelling the increase.
‘This group is sometimes forgotten in sexual health campaigns – but safer sex still applies’
Dame Sally Davies, Britain’s chief medical officer, said men with vasectomies and older women who no longer feared falling pregnant were increasingly putting themselves at risk.
Official figures have shown a 25 per cent rise in the number of older men diagnosed with gonorrhoea in just one year. A quarter more women of the same age were diagnosed with herpes in 2017 than in 2016.
Public Health England, which published the figures, also reported a
15 per cent increase in pensioners contracting chlamydia over the same
period.
Well, well. Would’ve thought it?
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To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic
