The test involves taking a swab from the vagina, but otherwise is not dissimilar to a COVID test.
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There are a number of possible reasons we’ve seen a rise in STIs among people over 50 in recent years.
Syphilis cases have increased 30% among 15- to 24-year-olds in Philadelphia since 2019, while cases of gonorrhea are up 18%. Chlamydia cases have decreased but remain high.
Chlamydia is devastating for koalas, but the vaccine to prevent infection requires a booster shot. Recapturing the animals for their booster shot is costly and stresses them, but there’s a solution.
We dug into what was behind the headlines on nose-picking and dementia so you don’t have to. Here’s what the study really says.
You can have this STI without knowing it, or have symptoms, it can affect men and women, and it can be treated with antibiotics. Left untreated, it may cause complications.
STI prevention was largely driven by HIV prevention. With changes in HIV prevention initiatives that don’t really take into account other STIs, there’s need to refocus STI prevention.
NSW has changed its laws imposing criminal penalties on someone with an STI who doesn’t take “reasonable precautions” to not infect their sexual partner.
When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
The annual surveillance report of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Australia has found notifications of sexually transmissible infections are on the rise in Australia.
Trachoma easily spreads from one child to another through infected eye and nose secretions. A person may have up to 40 episodes of reinfection during childhood.
Pelvic inflammatory disease’s traumatic consequences are unmatched by the low level of awareness around it. Left untreated, it can cause chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy and infertility.
Research has shown that culling koalas could help stop the spread of deadly chlamydia. But how open will Australians be to killing one our favourite animals?
The latest instalment of Australia’s annual report card on HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections has been released this morning. Here’s what experts make of the results.
Over the past few years we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Australians aged 60 years and older.
Sexuality is a means of pleasure, fulfilment and intimate connection with other humans. But it can also be a source of anguish. So it’s perhaps no surprise that of all the areas in health care, the “STI…
A fall in condom use across the population is driving strong growth in sexually-transmitted infections, according to one of the authors of an annual surveillance report released today. Syphilis diagnoses…
A recent TV programme on “the secret life of students” followed a group of students in their first undergraduate year at Leicester University, including 18-year-old Aiden who was informed on screen that…
More men who live in rural and regional Australia contract chlamydia than previously thought and most cases of infection…
A “Perspective” published in the Medical Journal of Australia today calls for patient-delivered partner therapy for chlamydia to be made legal across Australia. This approach could be just the right way…
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, The University of Melbourne
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Academic Specialist, Indigenous Eye Health Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Program Head of Surveillance Evaluation and Research, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Clinical Academic Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Hugh Taylor is a Friend of The Conversation.
Melbourne Laureate Professor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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La Trobe University
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Academic Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, UNSW