By PLNSW|2022-05-10T12:43:19+10:0010 May 2022|Tags: research, STI|
Institute of Glycomics, Griffith University; The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney GoGoVax is a multi-centre, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial with 24 months of follow-up. The trial will evaluate the efficacy of a meningococcal B [...]
By PLNSW|2023-06-04T17:49:22+10:0012 April 2022|Tags: Advisory Committee, BBV, Research study, STI|
The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney; NSW Health; Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney The Bloodborne viruses and sexually transmissible infection Research, Intervention and Strategic Evaluation (BRISE) program is a NSW Government–funded, university-based [...]
By Liz Sutherland|2024-01-01T17:42:20+11:0012 February 2020|Categories: Ageing Support, Health, Women's Health|Tags: anal cancer, HPV-related cancers, human papillomavirus (HPV), STI|
The main risk for anal cancer is a common virus carried by everyone who is sexually active.
By Bella Bushby|2024-01-01T17:27:41+11:0015 November 2019|Categories: Health, Women's Health|Tags: condomless sex, free condoms, HIV and young people, PrEP, sex education, sex positive generation, STI|
Ditching the condoms risks more than pregnancy. What do you know about sexually transmitted infections (STIs)?
By Joël Murray|2024-01-03T16:21:45+11:002 July 2018|Categories: Treatments|Tags: contact tracing, partner notification, Peer-led partner notification (PLPN), STI|
Telling partners after an STI diagnosis can feel difficult and messy, an unwanted complication.
By Daisy Molesworth|2024-01-04T11:55:46+11:0014 March 2018|Categories: Opinion, Women's Health|Tags: HIV and young people, sex education, sexual health information, STI|
As a straight 19-year-old woman who went to a co-ed religious boarding school, our sex education was definitely subpar.
By Adrian Eisler|2024-01-04T12:12:53+11:0011 February 2018|Categories: Mental Health, Treatments|Tags: contact tracing, HIV and disclosure, informed decision, NSW Sexual Health Infolink (SHIL), partner notification, Peer-led partner notification (PLPN), STI|
Disclosure about an STI diagnosis including HIV can be daunting. Positive Life can support you through disclosure.
By Katya Samodurov|2024-01-05T15:25:19+11:0014 December 2017|Categories: Communications, Health|Tags: contact tracing, NSW Sexual Health Infolink (SHIL), partner notification, STI, world AIDS day|
With the support of experienced peers from Positive Life, partner notification can be respectful, liberating and doesn’t need to be anxiety-inducing.
By PLNSW|2023-07-16T17:52:07+10:008 September 2017|Tags: HIV and disclosure, peer support, Peer-led partner notification (PLPN), STI|
Normally called contact-tracing, partner notification is process of telling or notifying your sexual or injecting partners about your STI diagnosis. When your partner knows they might have been put at risk of an STI [...]
By David Crawford|2024-01-04T12:49:05+11:0011 August 2017|Categories: Health, Treatments|Tags: antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, gonorrhoea, PrEP, STI|
What can we do in a time of emerging global antibiotic resistance?