An Australian app is showing promise in identifying infections in photos using artificial intelligence,amid a surge in people contracting STIs over the past year.
Queensland sex worker Eva says doctors can be ‘patronising and really offensive’,making it difficult to comply with laws that mandate she and her colleagues have regular health tests.
The flu,malaria and even gonorrhoea will be studied to help the first lab of its type in the southern hemisphere stay one step ahead of the prime candidate for the next pandemic.
New data shows rates of gonorrhea,syphilis and chlamydia rebounded in 2022,following a fall during the pandemic era.
For all the public health campaigns recommending that we check our breasts and skin for anything sinister,we often neglect to check our genitals.
Doctors say the lessons learnt about containing coronavirus should now be applied to all sexually transmitted infections.
The monkeypox outbreak has so far largely affected men who have sex with men,so there are simple precautions experts believe can limit its spread.
Experts have pointed to a change in the spread of the usually mild infectious disease at an urgently called World Health Organisation meeting.
Gonorrhoea infections are surging in Melbourne’s outer suburbs with Melton and Casey experiencing the sharpest increase in cases.
And a way to get mathematics back on course.
Melbourne scientists will use genomic sequencing for the first time to track fast spreading syphilis outbreaks running rampant in the city’s outer western suburbs,as doctors warn immediate intervention is needed to contain an evolving epidemic of the sexually transmitted disease.