Just over 200 people were diagnosed with HIV last year – 33 per cent lower than the average number of new cases over the previous five years,an HIV report shows.
All Victorian women of reproductive age are being advised to get tested for syphilis following the deaths of two babies this year who had contracted the sexually transmitted disease from their mothers.
In this episode of Good Weekend Talks,Good Weekend senior writer Melissa Fyfe is joined by NSW-based sex worker Jenna Love for a discussion on sex work in the time of COVID-19.
Researchers believe the societal conditions produced by the coronavirus lockdown provide an opportunity to break the chain of sexually transmitted infections.
The pandemic raises many questions around safe intimate physical contact,and what it may look like in the future.
A syphilis epidemic has hit Melbourne following a rapid surge in cases of the dangerous sexually transmitted disease in the past five years.
A drug-resistant strain of a highly contagious bowel infection has made its way to Queensland,health officials have confirmed.
A drug resistant strain of a sexually-transmitted bacterial infection which commonly causes gastro is circulating Victoria.
Its subject matter might be grim,but The Great Believers is a true page-turner.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt will announce that Dovato,a once-daily drug regimen,will be subsidised by taxpayers to provide more choice for Australians managing HIV.
Health authorities are calling for a change in the way we think about dealing with superbugs,saying it's not a war to be won,but a problem to be managed.