A resurgence of congenital syphilis in Victoria after a 25-year hiatus has prompted an overhaul of screening for pregnant women.
One in three women experience bacterial vaginosis,but a breakthrough Australian study has found that treating male sexual partners significantly reduces the chance of a recurrence.
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.