'Why I want to talk about STIs in the black community'
To be honest, if someone came up to me at Notting Hill Carnival to talk about chlamydia I'd probably find it awkward too.Others didn't want to give their names because they were worried that their auntie or mum would hear them talking about sex.
When I looked into the figures further, they show that it's people from a black Caribbean background who have the highest rates of STIs within the black community. One side of my family is Jamaican, and highlighting sexual behaviours just reinforces the stereotypes we've heard time and time again. It feels like a judgement - and I wondered whether that was actually fair?Image source,For example, she tells me the story of a young Caribbean man who came to her clinic having had gonorrhoea repeatedly. "It emerged that he was couch-surfing and sleeping with women so he could have housing, and wasn't using a condom.
Experts working in this field told me that shame is one of the biggest barriers to bringing down infection rates in the black community, where sex is often a taboo topic and sexual health is not discussed.
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