Monkeypox is not considered an STI but is spreading among sexual partners. Adding sexual health strategies to the public health response is helpful, but there is a danger of stigmatizing MPXV.
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Countries have to weigh up the cost of vaccinating everybody versus the cost of treating the disease.
Some of the sexual moralising we saw with HIV is still with us. That makes it harder for men who have sex with men to come forward for vaccines and testing.
To control monkeypox, there is a short window — weeks, not months — in which to vaccinate the most susceptible and to encourage and support self-isolation for those who have symptoms.
PrEP enables adolescent girls and young women to protect themselves from HIV without having to convince a partner to use a condom at the time of sex.
Saskatchewan leads the country in preventable, opportunistic illnesses enabled by poverty. With recent changes to income support programs and increased housing instability, things are getting worse.
We expected to find that screening everybody for TB would identify individuals not yet diagnosed, and treating them quickly would reduce the prevalence of TB in the community.
One of the first contemporary personal narratives about living with HIV in the 21st century, Fever urgently interrogates the social meanings of HIV, and how they’ve evolved in the era of treatment.
Up to 257 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe, modern contraception methods
Unless special attention is given to conflict and HIV the war will undermine the achievement of the 2030 goals to end AIDS, discrimination, and new infections.
Ukraine has one of the highest rates of multidrug-resistant TB in the world.
Social media platforms can be put to great use when it comes to promoting sexual health. But invoking threats and fear limits information reach and impact.
Before COVID-19, clean water, antibiotics and vaccines had made us complacent about infectious disease. Infection control can no longer be taken for granted. We must be prepared for future pandemics.
South Africa is in a new phase of the COVID pandemic. But vaccination remains crucial.
South Africa is still likely to experience periods of increased cases, smaller-scale outbreaks and even the development of new variants.
One in three children experiences abuse or neglect. These adverse events increase lifelong risks for chronic diseases and mental health issues, creating a public health hazard hiding in plain sight.
The drug pembrolizumab reveals where latent HIV is hiding.
As a disease progresses, so too must the underlying data and reporting improve to manage the progression of the outbreak.
DNA and mRNA vaccines produce a different kind of immune response than traditional vaccines, allowing researchers to tackle some previously unsolvable problems in medicine.
The challenges presented by the pandemic are an opportunity for African health systems to move beyond their current limitations.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
