Using AI,this app may tell if you have an STI
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Using AI,this app may tell if you have an STI

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.

  • byMary Ward

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‘I’ve been called a whore by a GP’:Calls to repeal mandatory sex worker health testing

‘I’ve been called a whore by a GP’:Calls to repeal mandatory sex worker health testing

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.

  • byCourtney Kruk
Virus volunteers to help Melbourne’s new human trials clinic prepare for the next pandemic
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Virus volunteers to help Melbourne’s new human trials clinic prepare for the next pandemic

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.

  • byAisha Dow
Online learning made it hard to teach sex ed. Now STIs are surging

Online learning made it hard to teach sex ed. Now STIs are surging

New data shows rates of gonorrhea,syphilis and chlamydia rebounded in 2022,following a fall during the pandemic era.

  • byMary Ward
A healthy sex life can also help you spot the early signs of a problem

A healthy sex life can also help you spot the early signs of a problem

For all the public health campaigns recommending that we check our breasts and skin for anything sinister,we often neglect to check our genitals.

  • byKatrina Marson
PCR-test blitz urged to counter Melbourne’s syphilis surge

PCR-test blitz urged to counter Melbourne’s syphilis surge

Doctors say the lessons learnt about containing coronavirus should now be applied to all sexually transmitted infections.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
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Monkeypox cause for concern,not panic as nation braces for more cases

Monkeypox cause for concern,not panic as nation braces for more cases

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.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
‘Sexual form of monkeypox’ blamed for global spread of virus

‘Sexual form of monkeypox’ blamed for global spread of virus

Experts have pointed to a change in the spread of the usually mild infectious disease at an urgently called World Health Organisation meeting.

  • byJennifer Rigby
Gonorrhoea'epidemic'hits city's outer suburbs

Gonorrhoea'epidemic'hits city's outer suburbs

Gonorrhoea infections are surging in Melbourne’s outer suburbs with Melton and Casey experiencing the sharpest increase in cases.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
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A pox on both their fashion houses

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Syphilis epidemic in Melbourne suburbs:scientists use genomic sequencing to track STD
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Syphilis epidemic in Melbourne suburbs:scientists use genomic sequencing to track STD

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.

  • byMelissa Cunningham