January 3 However, a global study co-led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Monash University in Australia, has shown that people who are seeking PrEP to prevent HIV are also at high risk of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Supported by the World Health Organization, the study, published in JAMA Open ... Read More
SEPTEMBER 16 2019 The signatories to this statement gather for the Australasian HIV & AIDS and Sexual Health Conferences 2019 in Perth – traditional lands of the Noongar Whadjuk peoples, and the 41st New Zealand Sexual Health Conference 2019 in Wellington – traditional lands of the peoples of Ngāti Toa and Taranaki Whānui ki te ... Read More
July 23 2019 Representatives from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have released the results of an extensive review, highlighting an opportunity for PrEP programs to bring down incidences of other STIs with better integration and coordination. Speaking at the 10th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Mexico City, ... Read More
More than 1 million people every day worldwide catch a sexually transmitted infection, with rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis the most worrying, the World Health Organisation said. “Sexually transmitted infections are everywhere. They are far more common than we think,” Teodora Wi, a medical officer in the WHO’s department for reproductive health and ... Read More
May 7, 2019 Bradley van Paridon An increased incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) was associated with the receipt of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in gay and bisexual men, according to data published in JAMA. To describe the STI incidence and behavioral risk factors in a cohort of gay and bisexual men using PrEP and ... Read More
10 March 2019 By Brett Lackey Data shows Northern Territory has much higher STI rate than rest of the country Territory Health minister has written to federal government about the problem Federal government said it has already pledge nearly $40 million to the issue The rate of sexually transmitted infections is staggeringly higher in the ... Read More
