An increase in condomless sex in PrEP users is predictable as preventing HIV is the key motivator for condom use among gay and bisexual men.
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The HIV prevention drug Truvada (PrEP) will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from this Sunday, moving Australia closer to achieving its goal of ending new HIV transmissions by 2020.
Young people in remote Aboriginal communities have high rates of STIs for a number of reasons, including inconsistent condom use and poor access to health services.
Gonorrhoea has seen a sharp increase in diagnosis rates, of up to 94% in some groups.
NSW has changed its laws imposing criminal penalties on someone with an STI who doesn’t take “reasonable precautions” to not infect their sexual partner.
Sex education in progressive countries like The Netherlands and Switzerland emphasizes intimacy, adventure and connection. Lower rates of teen pregnancy and sexual dysfunction ensue.
Despite significant medical advances, rates of sexually transmitted infections are on the rise, including some old foes like syphilis.
At a time when a new national school curriculum is starting its pilot phase in Kenya, a study shows the massive gaps in sexuality education programmes.
A new study has found rates of genital warts have decreased significantly since the HPV vaccine was introduced.
The defunding of Planned Parenthood is a goal of many in the new administration. Here’s a look at the facts about the group, including the number of people it serves and the services it provides.
When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
The annual surveillance report of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Australia has found notifications of sexually transmissible infections are on the rise in Australia.
A detailed new review should encourage us to ask some awkward questions.
This French film about upper middle-class teenagers having orgies gets to the heart of teen sex issues in the age of YouTube.
Good sex ed doesn’t lead to early sex, teenage pregnancy and STIs. It protects against them.
The active ingredient in the gel can bind to various viruses and stop them from attaching and getting into human cells.
How a microbe from the ice age could wreck your life – and how to protect yourself.
Scientists are developing various products that can provide contraception and protection from sexually transmitted infections and HIV at the same time.
Our sex lives may change as we get older but those in sexual relationships still want the same things as the young.
In any other industry, protection would be mandatory. But the porn lobby is too powerful.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Director of POCHE Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer, public health ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Fellow at Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate and research assistant, Burnet Institute
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Associate Professor in Public Health, University of York
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Research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Fellow, PhD candidate, La Trobe University
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Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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PhD Researcher in Ecology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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Reader in HIV and STI Epidemiology, UCL
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
