ELN: The NHS is promoting a sexual health awareness project to help solve the capitals growing sexual health problems. The initiative is a response to recent research that shows London has the highest levels of sexual ill health of any city in the UK costing the taxpayer £500m per year. There are estimated to be over 35,000 people living with HIV in London – a third of whom are not tested and do not know their HIV status. Indeed, when Dr. Lucien Herpes discovered his eponymous STD back in the 1920s he would have had no idea how soon his name would be on everyone’s lips. In addition, teenage pregnancy levels are among the highest in Western Europe and abortions, including repeat abortions, in all age groups are 25% higher than the English average. So in response a brand new sexual health initiative called Sex Factor Ideas 2012 has been launched. Sex Factor Ideas 2012 is described in the associated publicity drive as a hands on initiative to promote Sexual Health awareness among young Londoners by inviting London’s young community to actually create the promotional campaign themselves. They are hoping to encourage as many young Londoners to get involved as possible. This campaign comes as concerns were recently raised on a social media site about the potential for the upgraded Altab Ali Park to be abused by the East End’s growing army of “doggers”. “Dogging” is a craze whereby men and women who are otherwise unknown to each other indulge in semi-public sex in the open air in places such as parks, car parks and gardens. Concern has grown after it emerged that the new tree-stumps erected at the back of the park were mooted by dogging enthusiasts as a new potential shelter for their nocturnal activities. Other sites across East London listed on popular dogging websites include the bushes around Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, the area between Plaistow Station and Valetta Grove and two sites in Walthamstow; one on Coopermills Lane and the other on Forest Road near the doctors surgery.