Women affected by Domestic Abuse are 3 times more likely to have problems with their sexual health, and sexual health staff can often be the first point of contact for a victim.

IRIS ADViSE is a service personalised to sexual health services in Bristol and South Glos. You can talk to your sexual health nurse, doctor or any other staff who work within the clinics. They will then refer you to the ADViSE service where you can work with one of our trained female domestic and sexual abuse advocate educators.

After taking part in an initial mixed method pilot study in 2017, we were awarded funding to extend the pilot. Our specialist Domestic and Sexual Violence advocate-educators train and support sexual health clinicians to recognise domestic and sexual abuse, and refer their patients to our service.

We work with all genders who have been a survivor of sexual and/or domestic abuse.

We also run drop in’s at Unity Sexual health every Tuesday (1-4pm), Thursday (1-4pm) and Friday (9-12pm).